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  • verb Present participle of hooray.

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Examples

  • So everybody cheered again, Charley swinging his hat and "hooraying" as hard as anybody.

    Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

  • These students were flouncing around their "final clubs" at Harvard not 20 years ago, when our own dear leaders were out-hooraying each other in mustard waistcoats and blue tails, but seven years ago, when their president, who was educated in a similar place, was launching a war on a faraway country of which he knew nothing.

    Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010

  • These students were flouncing around their "final clubs" at Harvard not 20 years ago, when our own dear leaders were out-hooraying each other in mustard waistcoats and blue tails, but seven years ago, when their president, who was educated in a similar place, was launching a war on a faraway country of which he knew nothing.

    Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010

  • These students were flouncing around their "final clubs" at Harvard not 20 years ago, when our own dear leaders were out-hooraying each other in mustard waistcoats and blue tails, but seven years ago, when their president, who was educated in a similar place, was launching a war on a faraway country of which he knew nothing.

    Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010

  • These students were flouncing around their "final clubs" at Harvard not 20 years ago, when our own dear leaders were out-hooraying each other in mustard waistcoats and blue tails, but seven years ago, when their president, who was educated in a similar place, was launching a war on a faraway country of which he knew nothing.

    Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010

  • These students were flouncing around their "final clubs" at Harvard not 20 years ago, when our own dear leaders were out-hooraying each other in mustard waistcoats and blue tails, but seven years ago, when their president, who was educated in a similar place, was launching a war on a faraway country of which he knew nothing.

    Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010

  • And this meal, said the rousing voice of an anonymous, hooraying master of ceremonies on the speaker system, was β€œon the house.”

    Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994

  • When Rachel sips from a cup for the first time, she notices the cheerleader section of the family hooraying, jumping up and down and generally acting like a bunch of raving lunatics.

    Raising Children Who Think for Themselves M.D. Elisa Medhus 1985

  • When Rachel sips from a cup for the first time, she notices the cheerleader section of the family hooraying, jumping up and down and generally acting like a bunch of raving lunatics.

    Raising Children Who Think for Themselves M.D. Elisa Medhus 1985

  • When Rachel sips from a cup for the first time, she notices the cheerleader section of the family hooraying, jumping up and down and generally acting like a bunch of raving lunatics.

    Raising Children Who Think for Themselves M.D. Elisa Medhus 1985

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