holler

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"And if we were here all alone we could yell and holler, and slide down the banister, all we wanted to.

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  1. intransitive verb To yell or shout.
  2. intransitive verb Informal To complain.
  3. transitive verb To shout out (words or phrases). See Synonyms at shout.
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  • She hears him whoop and holler, his joy unmistakable. —  EQMM,November2007
  • French mismanagement beats ours holler, and their hate and jealousy of us makes their colonies penal settlements to us. —  The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • A holler is an old country term for hollow, a valley between mountains; holler means to yell (perhaps across the holler) and if there's any hip hop in you then it means you holla back, y'all. —  WebProNews Feed
  • Guinea Pig, The Story of Ricky all but encourages its audience to hoot, holler, and "eww" at the onscreen bloodletting. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • And he added, with a suspicious tremble in his voice, "I'd rather go downstairs an' set in the kitchen, if we can't holler Troy burst out laughing at sight of the dejected faces Oh, holler all you want to--holler as much as you can--I don't mean hollerin'. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)
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holler:   hollered ·  hollering ·  hollers
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  1. From obsolete hollo, hail!, stop!; see hello.
 

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