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hurrah

interjectionnounverbattested in dialogue

  • //həˈɹɑː//

Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness.

interjection

  1. 1

    Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness.

    Oh, she's speaking to me! Hurrah.

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly adopted from German hurra, itself of uncertain origin, or possibly an alteration of huzzah.

noun

  1. 1

    A cheer; a cry of hurrah!.

verb

  1. 1

    To give a hurrah (to somebody).

    Boys’ basketball boosters say something is missing in the stands at away games, cheerleaders resent not being able to meet their rivals on the road, and even female basketball players being hurrahed are unhappy.

Forms

plural
hurrahs
past tense
hurrahed
past participle
hurrahed
present participle
hurrahing
third person singular
hurrahs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).