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  • noun Plural form of hee-haw.

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Examples

  • Owns a family farm, too – he'll fit right in with the hee-haws in the Tea Party.

    A top House Republican to endorse Rubio 2010

  • He's every bit the braying jackass his constant "hee-haws" suggest he is.

    Film 2008

  • But would someone point out a solution offered in these Republican hee-haws about higher joblessness?

    Republicans Rejoicing with More Americans Jobless? 2009

  • If to laugh the King was minded, out they burst in loud hee-haws.

    Burlesques 2006

  • A God that guffaws with geraniums, chuckles with chihuahuas, hee-haws with hibiscus, tehees with turkeys, giggles with giraffes, howls with hyenas, convulses with carnations, whizgigs with walruses, and chortles with chimps.

    powerofrock Diary Entry powerofrock 2004

  • A God that guffaws with geraniums, chuckles with chihuahuas, hee-haws with hibiscus, tehees with turkeys, giggles with giraffes, howls with hyenas, convulses with carnations, whizgigs with walruses, and chortles with chimps.

    powerofrock Diary Entry powerofrock 2004

  • Why, he swallowed all the moldy old bunk yarns they passed over, and when they couldn't hold in any longer, and just let loose the hee-haws, he took it good natured, springin 'that kind of sad smile of his on 'em, and not even gettin' red around the ears.

    Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • But criticized the Universe with hee-haws loud and deep.

    The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • The boys all glanced at my face and made merry hee-haws at my cost.

    Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

  • If to laugh the King was minded, out they burst in loud hee-haws.

    Rebecca and Rowena; a romance upon romance 1850

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