halloo 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 Usage(s) 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.