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- noun Plural form of
ah .
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Vince Carter on the East roster, drew oohs and ahs from the crowd with a nifty
USATODAY.com - Freshman jitters prevalent for first-time All-Stars 2002
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Apparently use of the password ahs been "deprecated", or in other words, "discouraged".
Anonymous Facebook Employe Says Network Keeps Track Of Whom You Stalk Most - The Consumerist 2010
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It's better than ums and ahs, which is pretty much what's it's in place of.
And then there's the way Sarah Palin keeps saying "also," also. Ann Althouse 2008
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The first movement sets 8 of Ashbery's "37 Haiku" — after a swooping-down glissando opening, each haiku is declaimed by a solo singer while the rest accompany on "ahs" and "oohs" derived from the word haiku itself.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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The first movement sets 8 of Ashbery's "37 Haiku" — after a swooping-down glissando opening, each haiku is declaimed by a solo singer while the rest accompany on "ahs" and "oohs" derived from the word haiku itself.
Magna Carter (5): Role modeling Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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It's easy to tell when Obama is using a teleprompter, there's very few "ahs" and "ums".
"Barack Obama even needs a teleprompter to get mad." Ann Althouse 2009
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I've just been passed a note via my friend General Pace that goes back to the question I answered on the Woodward transcripts where I said something to the effect that the "ahs" and "uhs" were probably deleted.
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And "ahs" while he tugged on his grandsire's trunk-hose;
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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The king's handwriting was then handed round amidst reverent "ahs" and "ohs," or what sounded like them.
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And "ahs" while he tugged on his grandsire's trunk-hose;
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850
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