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Definition of holler:

  • (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal);
  • (noun) a small valley between mountains;
  • (verb) shout out; "He hollered out to surrender our weapons"
  • (verb) utter a sudden loud cry;
  • (verb) complain; "What was he hollering about?"

Sentence Examples:

She caused quite a commotion and people were all hollering and yelling, a general commotion.

Goes both barrels of a shotgun, and that Todd critter busts out hollering like all possessed.

The buildings on both sides was covered with flags and audiences, and everybody hollered 'Robbins!'

It is strange that with such a variety of words to choose from, people generally say "holler."

If you're going to begin to holler I'll get out of here so quick it'll make your head swim!

"They kept swapping packs with me, imagining my pack must be lighter because I wasn't hollering."

And now, just because he raised a 'holler', my football prospects are set back for this year.

And those who did hesitate for a stolen moment's admiration were hurriedly hollered back to their jobs.

He thundered down the stairs and out, hollering, to fall into the arms of the waiting police.

A monkey-faced apprentice jockey would say solemnly to the other kids, and then they'd all holler.

Irwin's view of the thing, was running Douglas "into his hole," and making "him holler, Enough."

"Let's holler and yell," said the little girl, as she straightened out the dress of her doll.

"Cousin Sim says it warn't, Cousin Sam, and her apple bet it holler," repeated Mary Sands cheerfully.

I pulled all around her and hollered a little, but there wasn't any answer; all dead still.

"Poor old woman with the holler eyes," says Stumps to himself, in a tone that is scarcely audible.

At length an Indian came to our guard one night, and hollered, and said he wanted to see "Captain Jackson."

Yes, sir, makes a regular holler about it as soon as his boat ties up in front of the fort.

Casey had succeeded in whipping the heavy man till he hollered, but the effort had been noticeable.

It's time, before some of 'em get good and sore, and begin to holler for you to meet Montague.

Well, the officer hollered something at me, I don't know what, and all the ladies commenced screaming.

Anyhow, it was up to the State fair people to make the holler if any was coming, wasn't it?

He just hollers and yells, and he's smashing a great big bracelet with shining stones in it.

First someone is hollering about Katy's doing something, and then somebody else yells that she didn't do it.

"Shut the big doors, so the neighbors can't hear 'em holler, and then give it to 'em good!"

"Well, if I could prove to you that your baby could be made to see, would you holler and laugh?"

"It'll hold him like wax, till he hollers for someone to help him," he announced, with radiant face.

I ain't putting up no holler, an' don't think that for a minute; but I'm just about strapped.

See how he stands there and not one word what Ben is hollering so at him can he understand.

I mean, seems to me really not to holler, is to be strong not to show you ever have been hurt.

It looked like to me that well was caving in above me; so I hollered for them to pull me out.

"Well, you ain't going to holler it all over the country," Al flung back at her over his shoulder.

One day when I was at work I heard hollering and thought someone must have gone beyond his depth.

"Well, you ain't going to holler it all over the country," Al flung back at her over his shoulder.

"Now be off," said Tom, "and don't come poking around, nor get in sight, till you hear me holler."

I guess the fellows must have thought I was crazy, but they hollered for all they were worth.

Jimmy hollered with renewed energy to attract his mother, and I continued to rain blows across his shoulders.

Next time I applied the boy hollered from the window that he was 'engaged' and couldn't see me.

That artist he hollered to stop, said he had hired it to stay up an' a bargain was a bargain.

Soon Key found Evan hesitating over the work, and hollered impatiently: "Hang that man Watson, where is he?"

If you decide to let us have the money inside of that time, jest holler, and we'll pull you up.

The wind had stopped hollering, and the waves had died to just a singing murmur on the beach.

Just as he reached there was a sort of grating jar, and we could hear voices hollering up on deck.

"How could he be killed instantly if he let a holler out of him as big as the Singer building?"

"I reckon we'll have to holler our messages across, as Tony said; only there isn't anybody to holler to."

The boys are hollering because you're working without kicking in and for my own protection you've got to split.'

Every time they ordered, Jack hollered for his and somebody would take it over and pour it down him.

"Mister Morgan, I got one hundred bones which holler that I can plug that dollar the second try."

He wasn't happy none at all, though all the time he'd been hollering for some game that he couldn't beat.

You can holler to the Shawnees, but it would never do you any good; you'd never live to see 'em.

He'd holler, and all the time right in back of me, spread out on the board, he could see 'em.

One would holler one price and another would holler another, and the highest bid would get the slave.

If this race has its own doctors, they'd only be hollering for help if they're up against a tough one.

"If our hired man was here I bet he'd beat you all holler," piped a boy's voice from the doorway.

"That is, unless you holler out, mighty quick, that you're ready to write all that we tell you to write."

I was there when it started, and I kept hollering that it had started, but no one would believe me.

A man out here don't holler if you beat him fair, but if you stack the cards on him, that's different.

"Well, if she would only talk now, and holler out, we'd know where to look for her," added Freddie.

Clarissa, who had taken a few steps ahead, reached back and jerked Phil's arm so hard that he hollered.

Do you suppose that you are kept here that parties may have the chance of hollering out their lungs for you?

When I got enough dirt out of my mouth so as I could holler, I set to and said what I thought.

Dick's idea was that we should use our knives and to keep to it till one was killed, or he hollered 'Enough!'

Weaver, you keep on hollering your head off about the weight; it'll scare the outsiders, and they won't play her.

I didn't holler once, and wasn't much scared, for all the bells, and the dark, and the rain.

And that day he did nothing but holler at me; and the more he hollered, the more stupid I became.

Our records show that you've never hollered copper in your life, and you've had two expeditions nearly wiped out around you.

"Well, if you could tell from the way they hollered every time it struck, that goes without saying," laughed Colon.

Before I'd hollered it out once or twice I should have been asked to eat my words, if you'll excuse the vulgar expression.

We hollered to him to follow the train, which he did, but only to find us going the other way again.

He hollered at me to stop, which only scared me worse and away I went and that big fellow after me.

Well, I could have busted right out laughing, but Mark pinched my leg so hard I almost hollered because it hurt.

I am wet and cold, and hollering like this is giving me a sore throat, and the rest of the lads too.

And the questions that he asked: "Say, Sergeant, will the guerrillas holler before they shoot, or shoot before they holler?"

The Moon-base people had ordered it, and they're going to holler bloody murder when they find out we appropriated it.

When the table was set and everything was ready I put my head out of the window and hollered: "Dinner!"

Yes, sir; as we were bringing him out of the theater, he hollered that he was going to protest this police brutality.

Everybody hollered and laughed fit to kill, and Sam tried to pull himself away, but Mark hung on to him.

All at once I heard Mark holler, and when I looked up there he stood, with Uncle Ike Bond right beside him.

And dad's so worked up that he gives the other guy his till he hollers that that's all he'll want.

The captain was hollering from the bridge to lower the boats as the ship would blow up because of the oil.

Then it turned down and seemed to look at what was gone, and I could see the mouth open as if to holler.

Time an' again, I have to bang at his door an' holler myself hoarse, before I can get him to open his eyes.

And one on 'em hollered, "It is a wild beast in human shape, but he won't be a wild beast much longer!"

With one loud holler I landed on my ear on the floor and kicked the poker table on top of the dealer.

Darryl hollered in my ear, just barely audible over the shrieking of the sirens, which had been joined by traditional police sirens.

He got out that last holler just as the cat touched the foot of the stairs as gentle as a bird lighting.

At two or three days the baby learns that when it opens its mouth and emits a holler, someone immediately comes.

Then, all of a sudden, Grandma threw down her knitting and started calling Grandpa Thad as loud as she could holler!

The old dam now lay "like a holler tooth," as one of his men said, grown up with weeds and willow-brush.

When freedom was told 'em Uncle Frank said all them in the camps hollered and danced, and marched and sung.

It is that that interests him; not the buttons on his coat, nor to have the people holler when they see him.

The rebels came down on us, colors flying and in solid column, shouting and hollering as if certain and sure of victory.

I was nursing old Miss' baby, and she just hollered and cried 'cause she thought de Yankees done killed her husband.

She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart.

Lanterns began to show, and men began to holler to know what was the matter, and there was a regular mess.

I thought I heard him try to holler something, but there was much noise, the engines, and the men giving orders.

They seemed to be looking hard for the folks who stuck it up, and there was a great running around and hollering.

The folks thought it was a grand piece arranged for their benefit, and they hollered and laughed and clapped their hands.

Why that very minute the gang would be hollering and screaming and coasting down the hill and having a wonderful time.

"No use hollering till we are out of the woods," said Frank; "the current may make another turn before we land near the ships."

When Cunningham worked that crooked irrigation scheme of his on Dry Valley, I reckon I was one of them that hollered the loudest.