Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation expressive of joy, praise, applause, or encouragement: sometimes used as a noun.
- To utter a loud shout of acclamation, encouragement, joy, or the like.
- To receive or accompany with acclamation, or with shouts of joy; encourage by rounds of cheering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome.
- noun A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.
- noun [Colloq. U.S.] state of utmost confusion.
- intransitive verb To utter hurrahs; to huzza.
- transitive verb To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness.
- noun A
cheer ; a cry of hurrah!. - verb transitive, intransitive To give a hurrah (to somebody).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb shout `hurrah!'
- noun a victory cheer
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Examples
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Galactica's last hurrah is tonight, but with Caprica on the horizon, fans of BG still have something to look forward to.
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Galactica's last hurrah is tonight, but with Caprica on the horizon, fans of BG still have something to look forward to.
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I think the Suns are hoping that they can rest him for the season and get one last hurrah from the big man in the post season and win the title.
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I think the Suns are hoping that they can rest him for the season and get one last hurrah from the big man in the post season and win the title.
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Denying him his last hurrah is preferable than putting him to death; after all, if he's dead, he'll never suffer the years of slow torturous boredom and deprivation that life in prison will bring him.
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This time I fled to the front, and was inquiring of some of the family whom I encountered, as frightened as I, what it could mean, when a hurrah from a crowd concealed behind the garden wall recalled to us that it was a salute of crackers and a display of fireworks to celebrate his Excellency's birthday.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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My only recollection of it is, that there was great slashing at the banks and aristocrats that ground the faces of the poor; for I was on what our opponents called the hurrah side, and these were the things we talked about.
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And tonight might be Planet Earth's last hurrah, that is if anything goes wrong with the launch of CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
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And I did a ton of commercials and music videos, and that went on for a while, and I think the last kind of hurrah I had with music videos was I did all the videos off of the Green Day record American Idiot, and we won a bunch of awards at the MTV Awards in 2005.
Interview: Samuel Bayer, Director of A Nightmare on Elm Street | /Film
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Let's give Winter one last "hurrah" with these cupcakes named after the Abominable Snowman.
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