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Hip hip hooray (also hippity hip hooray; hooray may also be spelled and pronounced hoorah, hurrah, hurray etc.) is a cheer called out to express congratulation toward someone or something, in the English-speaking world and elsewhere, usually given three times. By a sole speaker, it is a form of interjection.
"Huzzah" on a sign at a Fourth of July celebration. Huzzah (sometimes written hazzah; originally HUZZAH spelled huzza and pronounced huh-ZAY, now often pronounced as huh-ZAH; [1] [2] in most modern varieties of English hurrah or hooray) is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "apparently a mere exclamation". [3]
According to the Royal Institute Dictionary, chayo is a variant form of ชัย (chai), itself a loanword from Pali/Sanskrit jaya (जय), meaning 'victory'. [5] Today, chaiyo is commonly used in celebratory toasts, especially at weddings. [6] The poetic use of chayo remains familiar as it is the final word in the royal anthem Sansoen Phra ...
Hip! Hip! Hooray! (1915 musical), a musical by Raymond Hubbell and R. H. Burnside "Hip Hip Hooray" (Sneaky Sound System song), 2004; Hip Hip Hooray, a children's album from Play School (Australian TV series) Hip Hip Hura, a 1985 album by Chrisye "Hip Hip Hooray", a 2016 song by Dappy "Hip Hop Hooray", a 1992 song by Naughty by Nature
Defoe (Captain Singleton) speaks of it as a sailor's word, and the meaning does not appear in Johnson's Dictionary. [1] Of the different words or rather sounds that are used in cheering, "hurrah", though now generally looked on as the typical British form of cheer, is found in various forms in German, Scandinavian, Russian (ura), French (hourra).
Hip is a slang for fashionably current [1] and in the know. To be hip is to have "an attitude, a stance" in opposition to the "unfree world", [2] or to what is square or prude. Being hip is also about being informed about the latest ideas, styles, and developments. [3] Hip, like cool, does not refer to one specific quality. What is considered ...
Hooray" or huzzah is an exclamation. Hooray may also refer to: an exclamation of cheering; Hooray for Boobies, a Bloodhound Gang album, released in censored forms as simply Hooray; Hooray (horse) (born 2008), a British thoroughbred racehorse "Hooray", a song by Delays from the 2008 album Everything's the Rush
Hip, hip hooray. From the dagger to the lightning flash from the bomb to the great roar, all ahead, all in the field: here you win or die! I am young and I am strong, my heart does not tremble: smiling at death before going to dishonor! Youth, youth, spring of beauty, in the hardship of life your song rings and goes! For Benito Mussolini: Hip ...