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UK
/hˈæluː/
]
VERB
- shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention
-
urge on with shouts
halloo the dogs in a hunt
NOUN
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a shout to attract attention
he gave a great halloo but no one heard him
How To Use halloo In A Sentence
- Now jump!" cried Niels; and with one joyous "halloo" the children were on the broad, springy plank, enjoying to the utmost this novel pleasure. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
- Round and round the decks they went, Mugridge sick with fear, the sailors hallooing and shouting directions to one another, and the hunters bellowing encouragement and laughter.
- A. Roy McClerken hallooed to me; he asked me if I could take a couple of passengers.
- Presently a faint halloo was heard from an adjoining field. Tom Brown's Schooldays
- We could see at every house a tenter, and on almost every tenter a piece of cloth or kersie or shalloon .... The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners
- Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.
- 'May the foul fiend, booted and spurred, ride down his bawling throat with a scythe at his girdle,' quoth Albert Drawslot; 'here have I been telling him that all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler! Waverley — Volume 1
- Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.
- Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.
- Presently a faint halloo was heard from an adjoining field. Tom Brown's Schooldays
