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holloo

holloo is the alternative form of halloo.

Meaning of halloo

Interjection

  1. Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
  2. Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers.
    • Earl Walter winds his bugle horn;
      To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo!
      His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn,
      And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.1796, Gottfried Augustus Bürger, “The Chase”, in [Walter Scott], transl., The Chase, and William and Helen: Two Ballads, from the German […], Edinburgh: […] Mundell and Son, […], for Manners and...

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Forms of holloo

Noun
pluralholloos
Verb
third-person singular presentholloos
present participlehollooing
past participlehollooed
pasthollooed

Questions about holloo

What is holloo the alternative form of?
Holloo is the alternative form of halloo.

Words near holloo in the dictionary

  1. Hollomons
  2. Hollon
  3. hollong
  4. hollongs
  5. Hollons
  6. holloo
  7. hollooed
  8. hollooing
  9. holloos
  10. hollos
  11. hollow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holloo (page history and authors); halloo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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