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  • n  a shout to attract attention
    he gave a great halloo but no one heard him
  • v  urge on with shouts
    halloo the dogs in a hunt
  • v  shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention

  • Hullabaloo, which harks back at least to the 18th century English wolf-hunting cry of "halloo-baloo," appeared as shumikha, which means "uproar.
  • Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford Peters, Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds.
  • William and his attractive wife, Jane, 24, organized the Wicomico Hunt Club, love to halloo after hounds across their fields.

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