Ho

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • interjection. Used to express surprise or joy, to attract attention to something sighted, or to urge onward: Land ho! Westward ho!
  • n. Slang A prostitute.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • interjection. Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
  • interjection. halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach
  • n. A whore; a sexually loose woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • pronoun. Who.
  • n. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
  • interjection. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
  • interjection. Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • A cry or call uttered to arrest attention; also, an exclamation of satisfaction or exultation.
  • In particular, a cry used to stop one who is passing, or to command a stop in some action; now, especially (also written whoa), a cry used to stop a horse or other draft-animal; used imperatively, stop! hold!
  • n. A command to keep silence, or to cease from anything.
  • n. Cessation; end; pause; intermission.
  • To cry out; call out; hail.
  • To stop; cease.
  • A Middle English form of who.
  • See he.
  • The chemical symbol of holmium.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
  • Equivalent
    hoa   
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    Cross Reference
    Variant
    whoa    hoo   
    Synonym
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    who    stop    halt   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au    Beau    Bio    Bo    Bordeaux    Boudreaux    Bow    Cloe    Co    Cousteau   
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