(interj.) Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
(2) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
(4) Both HOO.- and ROO.-initiated peroxidations of linoleic acid were promoted by increases in solution ionic strength: the inclusion of 0.1 M of various alkali metal salts in the reaction resulted in up to a 4-fold increase in the overall peroxidation rate.
(5) Here's Phil Powell: "All this hoo-hah about Alistair Cook reminds me of this superb tweet from Adam Hollioake …" Adam Hollioake (@adamhollioake) You are free to criticize athletes.
(6) It's difficult to know who comes out looking dafter from this whole hoo-ha – the media, Twitter, News International, who yesterday admitted to wrongly confirming Deng's account, or Murdoch himself.
(7) The jury of nine men and three women at Maidstone crown court cleared the six, five of whom had scaled a 200m tall chimney at Kingsnorth power station at Hoo, Kent in October 2007.
(8) An faur mair valuable than ony Saxon Sutton-Hoo nonsense!’ The senders were from a wide range of backgrounds.
(9) The LOOH-dependent pathway of HOO.-initiated fatty acid peroxidation may be relevant to mechanisms of lipid peroxidation initiation in vivo.
(10) But it’s creepy how that all debate over whether hackers are freedom fighters or criminals seems to go out of the window, when the much greater prize of - woo-hoo!
(11) 23 October For all the hoo-ha over the Chinese visit, he [TB] felt in the end we had taken the right position, and stuck to it and it would benefit us with the Chinese, as well as the public.
(12) Almost all of that Fife landscape has now been buried without ceremony by motorways and housing estates, but equivalents can be found elsewhere, none of them grander and stranger than that part of Kent known as the Hoo peninsula, which lies between the Medway and the Thames and which, if Norman Foster and Boris Johnson have their way, could become the most vital stretch of land in Britain.
(13) There was Khrushchev or Brezhnev gazing on sternly from a Kremlin balcony at the synchronised marching and Soviet military hardware scrolling past below, but the whole deadly solemn communist pomp was undercut by that garish chunk of Disneyland architecture sitting in the corner, screaming "yoo hoo!".
(14) Would it matter to the world beyond, other than to birds and ornithologists too, if Hoo became a giant airport and dock, clustered with warehouses, freight yards and car parks?
(15) What emerges instead is a fond tribute to a clutch of eccentrics who managed to eke emotional resonance from the unlikeliest of sources, with each – from FW " Nosferatu " Murnau in 1922 to gothic melancholist Guillermo " Pan's Labyrinth " del Toro – serving up the blimey with a generous dollop of boo-hoo.
(16) Still, the Brass Eye hoo-ha set the tone for a decade in which comedy became the nation's moral barometer – even if the "offensive" acts to come weren't always as defensible as Morris.
(17) The problem is not with the books; the problem is that this year's hoo-ha suggests that the Booker is happy to be seen as a marketing strategy than as an exercise – however flawed – in choosing and celebrating literary and artistic achievement.
(18) Minor reactions presumably provide alternative formations of the 4a-hydroperoxy- and 4a-hydroxy-flavin radical cation transients by the direct addition of HOO.
(19) But even so modified we would still be facing the prospect of a coal plant on the Hoo Peninsula emitting 6m tonnes of CO 2 a year.
(20) So there was a big hoo-ha – 'Rizwan rigged the JCR election' – and we exposed them for just picking their puppets.
Hurrah
Definition:
(interj.) Alt. of Hurra
(n.) A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.
(v. i.) To utter hurrahs; to huzza.
(v. t.) To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.
Example Sentences:
(1) As for Bowie, Tony Visconti seems confident that The Next Day is a new beginning rather than simply one last hurrah.
(2) Tonight, hurrah, I have a seat on my favourite train home, the 1819.
(3) Bosnia-Herzegovina Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Harrowingly for Greece, there is a rival Balkan Bloc entry and hurrah, the song is in the local language.
(4) High tempo, chances galore, Dortmund very much in the mood, Bayern taking long finding their rhythm," hurrahs Zoltan Toszgei.
(5) Hurrah & huzzah for James Dunsby, a greater man you could not meet."
(6) An email: "I absolutely agree with Lucky Pierre," hurrahs Michael Best.
(7) Daily Mail: Such as he never said "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" and "That Hitler is a lovely bloke".
(8) The prime minister, Matteo Renzi, thanked the police and prosecutors involved, tweeting: “Hurrah for Italy.
(9) It's a tribute to Rimington's chairmanship that this commitment to easeful enjoyment is loyally echoed by colleagues, with her fellow judge and author Susan Hill tweeting: "Hurrah!
(10) As critics lined up to slam judges' unexpected selection, which included two debut novelists ahead of titles by former winner Alan Hollinghurst and Costa winner Sebastian Barry, judge Susan Hill tweeted "Hurrah!
(11) on the dysfunctional value destructive way the Co-op has been run by mgt May 7, 2014 Indeed.... 4.13pm BST Back to the Co-op Bank -- MPs have cited the example of the Rochdale Pioneers (hurrah!
(12) Labour is committed to a freelance charter and leader Ed Miliband promises to deliver equal rights for the self-employed and (hurrah!)
(13) Martin Beck, senior economic advisor to the EY Item Club, said the numbers represented “one last hurrah” for the economy before it entered a weaker and more turbulent period.
(14) There was still a final night out in Split to come, though, and I steeled myself for one last hurrah.
(15) Black people were now in the mainstream … Hurrah!
(16) And is this a triumphant hurrah for science, finally trumping arts in changing society?
(17) British summer time is just days away but winter has had one last hurrah, with snow falling across parts of the UK.
(18) People may keep on being dishonest, may get away with it and may publish in the same journals time and again, to the hurrahs of like-minded people who are often editors of the same journals," he writes.
(19) But there was one more dominant figure lurking in the wings - Robert Maxwell, whose introduction of colour into the Mirror Group papers, before he plundered the pension fund and literally went overboard, gave it what may have been its last hurrah.
(20) He was knocked out by George Foreman for the second time in 1976, retired, and came back in 1981 for a draw against Jumbo Cummings in his last hurrah.