[
US
/ˈhɑɫɝ/
]
[ UK /hˈɒlɐ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɒlɐ/ ]
NOUN
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a small valley between mountains
he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians -
a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
his bellow filled the hallway
VERB
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shout out
He hollered out to surrender our weapons -
complain
What was he hollering about? -
utter a sudden loud cry
I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me
she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle
How To Use holler In A Sentence
- The crowd whooped and hollered at the unexpected entertainment.
- In America, Hollerith, working on census returns, developed a machine using electric current and capable of analysing returns at speed.
- John, mum, I beg of you; for 'is temper's rather short at times, mum, thro' boin 'asmatic and the rheumatiz, though you wouldn't think it to look at' im, that you wouldn't; an 'I'm reely afraid, mum, he might get angry if anybody was to holler' im anythink for Philistia
- O'BRIEN: Tobias Hollerer is demonstrating something he calls augmented reality -- three-dimensional graphics inserted into the real world using computers that you wear. CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007
- September 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm wish I cood but there seems to a carnival goin awn in my hed tonite, the steem caliope goin full blast Dee dee dee dee deet dee dee dee, and the midway barkers hollerin Step Rite up, just one thin dime thass right frens , and the belss on the carosel binging and the gurls shreilin on de ferris wheel, and I kin even smell the poppycorms. I can has chiropractor? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- But the opener did turn a bit testy in the eighth inning when Grant Balfour hit J.D. Drew in the right shoulder with a high fastball, prompting a few Red Sox to holler from the bench. Dice-K masterful as Red Sox beat Rays in ALCS opener
- Somebody in the rackets gets a bullet in him, people holler gang war.
- The two of them whooped and hollered some more; their wives sighed at the spectacle and regarded each other with love.
- They had some words, -- the officer and the sentry, -- he couldn't tell what, but the officer spoke excited like, and all of a sudden jumped away and started as though to run, and Number 6 "hollered" after him, though Reilly didn't clearly understand what was said. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
- Serving as an admonition to all ladies and gentlewomen, not to mock or scorne gentlemen-Schollers, when they make meanes of love to them: Except they intend to seeke their owne shame, by disgracing them The Decameron
