Usually means: Shout loudly, call over distance.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. holler: Merriam-Webster
  2. holler: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. holler, holler: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. holler: Collins English Dictionary
  5. holler: Vocabulary.com
  6. Holler, holler: Wordnik
  7. holler: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Holler, holler: Wiktionary
  9. holler: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. holler: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. holler: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. holler: Dictionary.com
  13. holler: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. holler: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Holler (EP), Holler (Ginuwine song), Holler (Spice Girls song), Holler: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. holler: Rhymezone
  17. holler: FreeDictionary.org
  18. holler: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. holler: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. holler: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. holler: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. holler: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. holler: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. holler, holler, holler: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See hollered as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A yell, shout.
▸ noun:  (by extension, colloquial) Any communication to get somebody's attention.
▸ noun:  (music) A field holler.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To yell or shout.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To call out one or more words
▸ verb:  To complain, gripe
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow (narrow valley between mountains). [(geography) A small valley between mountains.]
▸ adjective:  (dialectal, especially Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow. [(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.]

Similar:
holla, shout, yell, hollo, shout out, scream, cry, holloa, yowl, roar, more...

Opposite:
whisper, murmur, quiet, soft-spoken, low volume

Types:
yell, scream, shout, cry, whoop, hoot, bawl, more...

Phrases:
holler out, Field holler, carsten holler, hoot and holler, The Heart, She Holler, more...

Adjectives:
big, loud, little, such, old, awful, next, deep, gonna, terrible, good


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Similar:
holla, shout, yell, hollo, shout out, scream, cry, holloa, yowl, roar, more...

Opposite:
whisper, murmur, quiet, soft-spoken, low volume

Types:
yell, scream, shout, cry, whoop, hoot, bawl, more...

Phrases:
holler out, Field holler, carsten holler, hoot and holler, The Heart, She Holler, Dick Holler, Ruby Holler, hoot and holler in the stands, holler at, more...

Adjectives:
big, loud, little, such, old, awful, next, deep, gonna, terrible, good



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