Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation expressive of joy, praise, applause, or encouragement: sometimes used as a noun.
- To utter a loud shout of acclamation, encouragement, joy, or the like.
- To receive or accompany with acclamation, or with shouts of joy; encourage by rounds of cheering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome.
- noun A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.
- noun [Colloq. U.S.] state of utmost confusion.
- intransitive verb To utter hurrahs; to huzza.
- transitive verb To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness.
- noun A
cheer ; a cry of hurrah!. - verb transitive, intransitive To give a hurrah (to somebody).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb shout `hurrah!'
- noun a victory cheer
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Examples
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Galactica's last hurrah is tonight, but with Caprica on the horizon, fans of BG still have something to look forward to.
March 2009 2009
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Galactica's last hurrah is tonight, but with Caprica on the horizon, fans of BG still have something to look forward to.
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I think the Suns are hoping that they can rest him for the season and get one last hurrah from the big man in the post season and win the title.
Stupid Trade xtra 2008
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I think the Suns are hoping that they can rest him for the season and get one last hurrah from the big man in the post season and win the title.
Archive 2008-02-01 xtra 2008
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Denying him his last hurrah is preferable than putting him to death; after all, if he's dead, he'll never suffer the years of slow torturous boredom and deprivation that life in prison will bring him.
May 2006 2006
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This time I fled to the front, and was inquiring of some of the family whom I encountered, as frightened as I, what it could mean, when a hurrah from a crowd concealed behind the garden wall recalled to us that it was a salute of crackers and a display of fireworks to celebrate his Excellency's birthday.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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My only recollection of it is, that there was great slashing at the banks and aristocrats that ground the faces of the poor; for I was on what our opponents called the hurrah side, and these were the things we talked about.
Sheppard Lee 1836
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And tonight might be Planet Earth's last hurrah, that is if anything goes wrong with the launch of CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
NewTeeVee 2008
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And I did a ton of commercials and music videos, and that went on for a while, and I think the last kind of hurrah I had with music videos was I did all the videos off of the Green Day record American Idiot, and we won a bunch of awards at the MTV Awards in 2005.
Interview: Samuel Bayer, Director of A Nightmare on Elm Street | /Film 2010
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Let's give Winter one last "hurrah" with these cupcakes named after the Abominable Snowman.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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