holla
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Interjection[edit]
holla
- Alternative form of hollo
- 1828, The Lairds of Fife, page 163:
- Holla, there! Holla, there, I say! What the devil are you about with my master's box-coat?
Verb[edit]
holla (third-person singular simple present hollas, present participle hollaing, simple past and past participle hollaed)
- Alternative form of hollo
Etymology 2[edit]
From holler.
Verb[edit]
holla (third-person singular simple present hollas, present participle hollaing, simple past and past participle hollaed)
- (colloquial) To shout out or greet casually.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 206:
- School days went by. I ran across Sly a couple a times, but I wasn't in no mood to talk. He could save all that philosophical bullshit he liked to holla. Didn't nobody need to tell me what was up.
Derived terms[edit]
Interjection[edit]
holla
- (colloquial) what's up; a greeting
- (African-American Vernacular) used to express interest in a woman
Anagrams[edit]
Irish[edit]
Noun[edit]
holla
- h-prothesized form of olla