halloa

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /hɛˈloʊ/

Interjection

halloa

A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention to something or to incite; a shout.
Halloa! what's this?
- 1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man‎:
  "Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.
- 1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
  "Halloa! Stop there!" he shouted, holding his bicycle to block our road.

Verb

halloa (third-person singular simple present halloas, present participle halloaing, simple past and past participle halloaed)

(intransitive) To utter an exclamation of "halloa".

See also

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