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holler

/hol-er/US // ˈhɒl ər //UK // (ˈhɒlə) informal //

叫喊声,喊叫声,喊叫,呼喊

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to shout or yell: He hollered insults back into the saloon.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a loud cry used to express pain or surprise, to attract attention, to call for help, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

What else does holler mean?

To holler is “to shout,” extended to “say hello” or “hit on” in Black English.In Appalachian English, a holler refers to a “hollow,” or mountain valley.

Examples

  • Next I thought of actual ranches I’ve been to, where the water in play was usually brown hollers encircled by slurping cows or mud-slathered pigs.

  • Booker ran in favor of the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-all, arguing that a relentless grass-roots campaign “from the hood to the holler could change the electorate.”

  • These voters told me that they’d watched opioids ravage their blue-collar communities, hills, hollers, and farm fields, while pharmaceutical companies rubbed elbows with regulators and laughed on their way to the shareholders’ meeting.

  • “The incoming Republican majority in the Senate was built on opposition to executive amnesty,” said Holler.

  • As advertised, Holler is not autobiographical in the same way that the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein are not autobiographical.

  • Interestingly, what became Holler If Ya Hear Me originally went to Wilson to write before it passed to Kreidler.

  • And Holler If Ya Hear Me boasts some very fun redecorated Tupac tunes.

  • The mainstream Tupac musical Holler If Ya Hear Me is, in some ways, an act of defiance for the poet-actor-musician Saul Williams.

  • We kin git the papers to start a holler and have folks demandin' action of their representatives, and sich like.

  • Father-in-law would holler if he heard the car, but Bud did not intend that father-in-law should hear it.

  • There's mighty strange things stirrin' on this here mountain, an' in the Holler down yonder.

  • W'en he git off little ways, he up 'n holler back ter Brer Fox dat he got a riddle he want 'im ter read.

  • There's them that 'lows there's things in this here Holler t' be afeared of, an' I reckon hit's so.