Usually means: Public outcry demanding legal action.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. hue and_cry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hue and_cry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hue and_cry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hue and_cry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hue and_cry: Vocabulary.com
  6. hue and_cry: Wordnik
  7. hue and_cry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hue and_cry: Wiktionary
  9. hue and_cry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hue and_cry: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hue and_cry: Dictionary.com
  12. Hue and_Cry (band), Hue and_Cry (disambiguation), Hue and_Cry (film), Hue and Cry, Hue and cry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hue and_cry: Rhymezone
  14. Hue and Cry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. hue and_cry: Free Dictionary
  16. hue and_cry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. hue and_cry: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. Hue and cry: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HUE AND CRY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Hue and_Cry (band), Hue and cry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hue and_Cry (band), hue and_cry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hue and_cry: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hue and cry)

noun:  (historical) The public pursuit of a criminal, accompanied by shouts to warn others to give chase.
noun:  (by extension) A loud and persistent public clamour, especially one associated with protest or the making of some demand.

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