Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A doer; a worker; a dealer; an agent; a keeper; a master; an owner; hence, an inhabitant; a man; a fellow: as, a punka-walla; a Hooghly walla. It is sometimes applied to things.
- noun One of the common names applied to a small variety of Oncorhynchus nerka, the blueback salmon of the Pacific coast.
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Examples
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The first thing I did to make a little bit of a living is I used to do what they call "walla," which is the background voices on all the show.
Brad Balfour: Andy Garcia, Once an Oscar Nom, Now Finds a Place in City Island 2010
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The first thing I did to make a little bit of a living is I used to do what they call "walla," which is the background voices on all the show.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Brad Balfour 2010
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And even though I am grateful for all the technology and connectedness at my fingertips, and understand the need of the camel walla to stay in touch with his people when he travels through the desert too, I still wish the only sounds that day were my thoughts, the wind and the camels, and not Ali's incessant Nokia ringtone.
Vicky Collins: The Camel and the Cell Phone Vicky Collins 2010
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And even though I am grateful for all the technology and connectedness at my fingertips, and understand the need of the camel walla to stay in touch with his people when he travels through the desert too, I still wish the only sounds that day were my thoughts, the wind and the camels, and not Ali's incessant Nokia ringtone.
Vicky Collins: The Camel and the Cell Phone Vicky Collins 2010
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And even though I am grateful for all the technology and connectedness at my fingertips, and understand the need of the camel walla to stay in touch with his people when he travels through the desert too, I still wish the only sounds that day were my thoughts, the wind and the camels, and not Ali's incessant Nokia ringtone.
Vicky Collins: The Camel and the Cell Phone Vicky Collins 2010
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And even though I am grateful for all the technology and connectedness at my fingertips, and understand the need of the camel walla to stay in touch with his people when he travels through the desert too, I still wish the only sounds that day were my thoughts, the wind and the camels, and not Ali's incessant Nokia ringtone.
Vicky Collins: The Camel and the Cell Phone Vicky Collins 2010
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And even though I am grateful for all the technology and connectedness at my fingertips, and understand the need of the camel walla to stay in touch with his people when he travels through the desert too, I still wish the only sounds that day were my thoughts, the wind and the camels, and not Ali's incessant Nokia ringtone.
Vicky Collins: The Camel and the Cell Phone Vicky Collins 2010
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And you know, a little garlic, a little chile, a little vinegar, walla!
Breakfast sausage to begin the day | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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But wait - there's more, there's the ting tang walla walla bing bang tropical sugarcane chant of "Mehenatta," the heavy upswim from sleep on a Sunday morning when you can see by the light in the room it's much later than you thought and you're hearing "Sunday Dub" and you can smell the espresso brewing.
Holly Cara Price: Sxip Shirey's Magic Journey: Sonic New York 2010
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Wish there was just a pluging\ that you upload and insert the correct directories the walla !
johnmperry commented on the word walla
A (male) worker.
also wallah.
August 16, 2008
scarequotes commented on the word walla
http://filmsound.org/terminology/walla.htm
A sound effect for the murmur of a crowd in the background.
Walla is often use as subliminal aural communication and sets a mood or a tone.
January 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word walla
http://filmsound.org/terminology/walla.htm
A sound effect for the murmur of a crowd in the background.
Walla is often use as subliminal aural communication and sets a mood or a tone.
January 8, 2016