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  • noun Plural form of halloo.

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Examples

  • Anon, the two redbeards among my crew send their halloos to you and their thanks for keeping them duly entertained while lurking about the Catorce Quarter.

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday 2007

  • Kingwere, the canoe paddler, espying us from his brake covert, on the opposite side, civilly responded to our halloos, and brought his huge hollowed tree skilfully over the whirling eddies of the river to where we stood waiting for him.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • Consequently, we were not surprised, while delayed at the ferry, to hear the owners of the corn venting loud halloos, like the rosy-cheeked farmer boys in England when scaring the crows away from the young wheat.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • He is spared a reply by halloos from the stairwell.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • But now, when the war was over and she went back to Tara to live, she would never again hear their wild halloos as they dashed up the avenue of cedars.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • But now, when the war was over and she went back to Tara to live, she would never again hear their wild halloos as they dashed up the avenue of cedars.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • But now, when the war was over and she went back to Tara to live, she would never again hear their wild halloos as they dashed up the avenue of cedars.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • But now, when the war was over and she went back to Tara to live, she would never again hear their wild halloos as they dashed up the avenue of cedars.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • But now, when the war was over and she went back to Tara to live, she would never again hear their wild halloos as they dashed up the avenue of cedars.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Someone was bawling an old song about the lack of liquor, and the strident voice carried over the shouts and halloos of the mob:

    Pagan Passions Laurence M. Janifer 1967

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