halloo

Meanings

Interjection

• Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
• Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers.

Noun

• A shout of halloo.

Verb

• To shout halloo.
• To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.
• To chase with shouts or outcries.
• To call or shout to; to hail.
• To shout (something).

Origin

• From Middle English hallow ("pursue, urge on"), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.