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Hooray.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1901–02, Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, Darby O'Gill and the Good People, McClure's Magazine, reprinted 1903, Reilly & Britton, page 80, Every brown cap was swung in the air. “Hooray! Hooray! Hooroo!” rang the cheers.
- 1981, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Splinters, Rigby, page 182, ‘Hooroo! Hooroo! Hooroo!’ she shouted, tossing handfuls of instant confetti over their happy heads.
- 1998, Theatre Record, Volume 18, Issues 18-26, page 1510, The audience is made to chorus “Hooray, hooray, we the common people say hooray“ and “Hooroo, hooroo, Plaid Cymru, hooroo” in celebration of the royal wedding, and is regaled with parish-panto Pooterisms galore.
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Goodbye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, colloquial
Examples
- 2009, Peter Yeldham, A Distant Shore, Penguin Group, unnumbered page, ‘Hooroo.’ It had always been her inevitable parting word. ‘Hooroo, Mrs Wheatley. Don′t forget next week.’
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To give a cheer of "hooroo".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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From 1700s British hooray or hurray, which was also used in Australia to mean goodbye.
