(interj.) A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy."
Example Sentences:
(1) "Hello" won the day, although "ahoy" still lingers .
(2) And Treasure Island has naturally enough moved with the times, with ahoy there face-painting and a fan page on Facebook.
(3) Speaking of wildly-hyped Brazilian forwards (well, a few sentences ago), word is that West Ham are looking at Alexandre Pato , even if (understatement ahoy) his career hasn’t quite panned out like Neymar’s has.
(4) That's a 24 and possibly 54-minute (plus pens) long rollercoaster ride ahoy!
(5) That scoreline is nicely poised for the second leg (about all that was poised — yellow cards ahoy in that one).
(6) But Graham Bell's company wanted people to use "ahoy".
(7) Parental advisory ahoy: " Ohh… Pablo Zabaleta, he is the fucking man!
(8) Prediction time: an easy win for Bayern ahoy, in my opinion.
(9) Gamble and Huff documented the era of Vietnam, Watergate and ghetto tension as effectively as the music of Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, with social commentaries such as the O Jays' For the Love of Money and Ship Ahoy , and Billy Paul's Am I Black Enough for You?
Cooee
Definition:
(n.) A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal.
Example Sentences:
(1) If we assume that there will be some kind of global framework of regulations on climate change that keep the world within cooee of 2°C of warming then there are going to be a lot of fossil fuels left underground.