haloo

Verb

halloo (third-person singular simple present halloos or hallooes, present participle hallooing, simple past and past participle hallooed)

1. (intransitive) To shout halloo.
   • For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
2. (transitive) To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.
   • There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, page 6
3. (transitive) To chase with shouts or outcries.
   • If I fly, Coriolanus,
     Holloa me like a hare.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
4. (transitive) To call or shout to; to hail.
   • A lake allows an average father, walking slowly,
     To circumvent it in an afternoon,
     And any healthy mother to halloo the children
     Back to her bedtime from their games across:1955, W. H. Auden, “Lakes”, in Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, New York: Modern Library, published 1959, page 149
5. (transitive) To shout (something).
   • Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
     And make the babbling gossip of the air
     Cry out ‘Olivia!’c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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