holla

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  1. Ho there! stop! hello! a call to some one at a distance, in order to attract attention, or an answer to one who hails. Hola! stand there! Shak., Othello, i. 2. Cry Holla! to the tongue, I prithee; it curvets unseasonably. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2.
  2. To call; cry; shout “Holla!” See hollo. I'll tarry till my son come; he hollaed but even now. Whoa, ho hoa! Shak., W. T., iii. 3.
  3. To cry out; utter loudly. I will find him when he lies asleep, And in his ear I'll holla —Mortimer! Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3.
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  • Telly Savalas (Kojak, y'all - holla!) is Erich Streator, a real crank of a guy who practically flips out when his wife and stepdaughter return home from a shopping trip wherein they have been so bold as to have made purchases. —  Final Girl
  • Yesterday's updates to the iPhone OS included some much-needed features -- holla, cut and paste -- but the demo that caught our interest? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • I know how to Pop my collar and holla - do you???? —  Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
  • You may not know it if you arrive here every day via a PopWatch bookmark (holla), but EW. com has a new guy! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Senior Geography student Melissa Gordon introduced the band and was an emphatic host for much of the afternoon, shouting at students to "holla" at the day's different happenings. —  Golden Gate [X]pReSS
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  1. Orig. accented on the last syllable; cf. French holà, ho there, an interjection used to call attention, from ho, ho, + là, there, from Latin illac, that way, there, ablative feminine of illic, he, she, or it yonder, that, from ille, he, that, + -c, -ce, a demonstrative suffix. The form holla belongs to the same group as hallo, halloo, hello, q. v., the forms hollo, holloa, hollow, being phonetically intermediate forms: see hallo, halloo, hollo. The D. holla, German holla, Danish halloj, interjection, so far as, being interjections, they are borrowed at all, are from the F.
  2. from holla, interj. Cf. hollo, v.
  3. from holla, interj. and v.
 

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