Holler
verb
To shout or cry out loudly.
When he saw the snake, he hollered for help.
Often appears as...
- holler for help
- holler out loud
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Informal
Colloquial
noun
A loud cry or shout.
I heard a holler from the other side of the room.
Often appears as...
- loud holler
- unexpected holler
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Informal
Colloquial
noun
A small valley between mountains, specifically in Southern USA.
He lives in a holler out in the countryside.
Often appears as...
- live in a holler
- walk through the holler
verb
To shout or cry out loudly.
When he saw the snake, he hollered for help.
Often appears as...
- holler for help
- holler out loud
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A loud cry or shout.
I heard a holler from the other side of the room.
Often appears as...
- loud holler
- unexpected holler
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A small valley between mountains, specifically in Southern USA.
He lives in a holler out in the countryside.
Often appears as...
- live in a holler
- walk through the holler
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Pro Tip 1/3Urgency or Excitement
Used when someone wants to attract immediate attention or express strong emotion.
He hollered in excitement as he crossed the finish line.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Situations
Most appropriate in casual contexts; considered too informal for serious or formal events.
At the concert, everyone hollered along with the music.
Pro Tip 3/3Volume and Emphasis
Implies a higher volume and sometimes a sense of urgency over 'shout' or 'yell'.
Can you holler a bit louder? I didn't hear you the first time.
Pro Tip 1/3Urgency or Excitement
Used when someone wants to attract immediate attention or express strong emotion.
He hollered in excitement as he crossed the finish line.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Situations
Most appropriate in casual contexts; considered too informal for serious or formal events.
At the concert, everyone hollered along with the music.
Pro Tip 3/3Volume and Emphasis
Implies a higher volume and sometimes a sense of urgency over 'shout' or 'yell'.
Can you holler a bit louder? I didn't hear you the first time.
Pro Tip 1/3Urgency or Excitement
Used when someone wants to attract immediate attention or express strong emotion.
He hollered in excitement as he crossed the finish line.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Situations
Most appropriate in casual contexts; considered too informal for serious or formal events.
At the concert, everyone hollered along with the music.
Pro Tip 3/3Volume and Emphasis
Implies a higher volume and sometimes a sense of urgency over 'shout' or 'yell'.
Can you holler a bit louder? I didn't hear you the first time.
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Total Eclipse at the Zoo...
they used to it they never really get scared about going down it's only a precaution really I mean we're pretty sure they're gonna be no reaction from the animals at all half and perhaps a bird with Boone's I get a hooting and hollering when it goes dark but you don't take chances with giraffes and elephants so we're going to keep those in a once-in-a-lifetime experience then
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Bryan Stevenson: We need...
He kept looking through the window and could hear all the holler. And finally, this older Black man with a very worried look on his face came into the courtroom and sat behind me, almost at counsel table. Ten minutes later, the judge said we'd take a break. During the break, there was a deputy sheriff who was offended
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Sarah Jones: What does...
and I think it's really important that, you know, that needs to be sustainable and everything, and I mean, as far as I'm concerned, I mean, this right here, this environment, I would like to sustain. You know what I mean? But I'm just saying, if y'all are interested in the top five songs, you need to holler at me.
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If I should have a...
and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken-word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that's what was expected of me. The first time that I performed, the audience of teenagers hooted and hollered their sympathy, and when I came off the stage, I was shaking.
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Watch the Total Solar...
the the sunnat' telescope but all of the crew everybody who is here with us for this incredible event than that geo guys the Airbnb guys back here everybody has their their sun protection on they're looking up and off in the distance you can hear people hooting and hollering because I can see
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How One Man's Amazing...
ghost and he's all well you get hollered out loud and when all that noise came when she just took off right we couldn't find her again I thought that was unbelievable I don't believe that happened Randy said I was a look for eyes it she that's just an apparition you didn't you
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Lessons from death row...
in the bathroom and lean against the door and holler for help until the police get there he looked at me and he said that's something you don't forget I hope there's one thing you won't forget in between the time you arrived here this morning and the time we break
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Lessons from death row...
that looks bigger than you are, and chases you through the house screaming she's going to kill you, and you have to lock yourself in the bathroom and lean against the door and holler for help until the police get there," he looked at me and he said,
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Issuing an EPO PIPE...
stealing our stuff and i stealing it back and then she hollers we struck her which we never laid a hand on her she tries to holler she's not racist but yeah me and my kids and that's our grandkids you know and
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Snake not Smoke PIPE Snake...
it helps keep his mind off his past and on church oh god wish I'd find something I hate you come out with you're not finding that you gonna walk out here on me yeah holler if you need say catch me
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Total Eclipse at the Zoo...
they used to it they never really get scared about going down it's only a precaution really I mean we're pretty sure they're gonna be no reaction from the animals at all half and perhaps a bird with Boone's I get a hooting and hollering when it goes dark but you don't take chances with giraffes and elephants so we're going to keep those in a once-in-a-lifetime experience then
Video examples
Bryan Stevenson: We need...
He kept looking through the window and could hear all the holler. And finally, this older Black man with a very worried look on his face came into the courtroom and sat behind me, almost at counsel table. Ten minutes later, the judge said we'd take a break. During the break, there was a deputy sheriff who was offended
Video examples
Sarah Jones: What does...
and I think it's really important that, you know, that needs to be sustainable and everything, and I mean, as far as I'm concerned, I mean, this right here, this environment, I would like to sustain. You know what I mean? But I'm just saying, if y'all are interested in the top five songs, you need to holler at me.
Video examples
If I should have a...
and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken-word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that's what was expected of me. The first time that I performed, the audience of teenagers hooted and hollered their sympathy, and when I came off the stage, I was shaking.
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
the the sunnat' telescope but all of the crew everybody who is here with us for this incredible event than that geo guys the Airbnb guys back here everybody has their their sun protection on they're looking up and off in the distance you can hear people hooting and hollering because I can see
Video examples
How One Man's Amazing...
ghost and he's all well you get hollered out loud and when all that noise came when she just took off right we couldn't find her again I thought that was unbelievable I don't believe that happened Randy said I was a look for eyes it she that's just an apparition you didn't you
Video examples
Lessons from death row...
in the bathroom and lean against the door and holler for help until the police get there he looked at me and he said that's something you don't forget I hope there's one thing you won't forget in between the time you arrived here this morning and the time we break
Video examples
Lessons from death row...
that looks bigger than you are, and chases you through the house screaming she's going to kill you, and you have to lock yourself in the bathroom and lean against the door and holler for help until the police get there," he looked at me and he said,
Video examples
Issuing an EPO PIPE...
stealing our stuff and i stealing it back and then she hollers we struck her which we never laid a hand on her she tries to holler she's not racist but yeah me and my kids and that's our grandkids you know and
Video examples
Snake not Smoke PIPE Snake...
it helps keep his mind off his past and on church oh god wish I'd find something I hate you come out with you're not finding that you gonna walk out here on me yeah holler if you need say catch me
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Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.
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Richie Havens
American Musician
I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.
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Flo Rida
American Musician
If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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Frank Crowninshield
American Journalist
In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.
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Isaac Wright Jr.
You can scream, you can holler, you can protest - which are all good things, because we have to be heard - but no real, significant changes occur without rolling up your sleeves and getting into a fight.
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John Lewis
American Politician
We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again. And then you holler, 'Be patient.' How long can we be patient?
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James McBride
American Writer
I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.
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Etta James
American Musician
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
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Kodak Black
American Musician
If Master P ever hollered at me, I'd holla at him.
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Mike Daniels
I used to get hollered at for benching too much.
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Barack Obama
American President
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.
Quote examples
Richie Havens
American Musician
I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.
Quote examples
Flo Rida
American Musician
If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
Quote examples
Frank Crowninshield
American Journalist
In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.
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Isaac Wright Jr.
You can scream, you can holler, you can protest - which are all good things, because we have to be heard - but no real, significant changes occur without rolling up your sleeves and getting into a fight.
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John Lewis
American Politician
We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again. And then you holler, 'Be patient.' How long can we be patient?
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James McBride
American Writer
I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.
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Etta James
American Musician
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
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Kodak Black
American Musician
If Master P ever hollered at me, I'd holla at him.
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Mike Daniels
I used to get hollered at for benching too much.
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