hoorawing

Verb

hooraw (third-person singular simple present hooraws, present participle hoorawing, simple past and past participle hoorawed)

1. To make loud noises at, such as when driving horses or cattle.
   • As the driver hoorawed the horses and the three other passengers grabbed the hand straps for support, Friendly ran up to Longarm's window, looking harried.2007, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Dwarf's Darling, →ISBN
2. To loudly and publicly celebrate or express support for someone or something.
   • Sha'nt I have to hooraw nor nothin'? 'cause 'twould go awfully agin my conshence to hooraw for Van Buren.1867, Mrs. Francis Miriam (Berry) Whitcher, M. L. Ward Whitcher, Widow Spriggins, Mary Elmer, and Other Sketches, page 370
3. To fool; to trick.
   • Hey, you just got hoorawed, boy, you got your leg pulled.2011, Brian Garfield, Wild Times
4. To make fun of.
   • Yo' see, it happen so : Marse Chan he wuz a- speakin' down at de Deep Creek Tavern, an' he kind o' got de bes' of ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin. All de white folks laughed an' hoorawed, an' ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin -- My Lawd! I t'ought he'd 'a' bu'st, he was so mad.1897, Thomas Nelson Page, Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia, page 21

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