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as in shouts
a loud vocal expression of strong emotion
heard a holler from somewhere in the woods and ran toward it
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as in whines
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
there didn't seem to be a thermostat setting that wouldn't bring a holler from somebody
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as in complains
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
another city council meeting with residents hollering about the unsatisfactory collection of garbage
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as in yells
to speak so as to be heard at a distance
there's no need to holler; I'm in the next room
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Recent Examples of hollers
Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
On fall game days, the football team and marching band parade onto the field to loud cheers and hollers, fresh out of a Friday Night Lights episode.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
All the segments understand the assignment, aiming primarily to elicit hoots and hollers.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
The town hall crowd received my comments with strong clapping and appreciative hoots and hollers.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
The epic shot shows the massive scale of the Sphere as the Chicago Bulls theme plays in the background and Chalamet enthusiastically hoots and hollers in celebration.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
There are hoots and hollers from raucous tourists on Bourbon Street, for example.
—Matt Alderton, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
There are a few hoots and hollers as the others agree or protest.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
Ruidoso, New Mexico — The soft dribble of rain drapes a herd of cowboy hats as an auctioneer hollers bidding numbers into the mist.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
This included early American music forms, marches, spirituals, field hollers, work songs and African rhythms, as well as their musical descendants, like jazz, blues, gospel, country and rock ‘n’ roll.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
Lots of noise, big splashes, a few congratulatory whoops and hollers.
—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.
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Cowboy and cowgirl hoots and hollers complement the rumbling of the massive animals’ hooves as they’re rounded up into the corrals.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for hollers
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There would be no third consecutive title, no hoisting of the championship cup over heads, no giddy laughter or shouts of joy.—
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Other shouts will inevitably go out to The Strawberry next door to Newcastle United or The Colliery Tavern beside Sunderland’s Stadium of Light.—
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At one point, Hujar complains about a call from the artist Ed Baynard.—
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The president calls his wife and complains about the sole of his shoe before heading off to a girls’ basketball event with Angel Reese.—
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Everybody yells at me all the time.—
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But leadership isn’t about who yells the loudest.—
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The year's first full moon is best known as the wolf moon since the howls of wolves were more likely to be heard during winter, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.—
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United Methodist leadership with the bishop’s office preached to students, who welcomed the leaders with excited howls.—
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Stein’s bedroom adjoined the room where Dodge would visit her lover at night; kept awake by the murmurings and moans, Stein lit a candle and composed a portrait of her host.—
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Most of these are held in a tent, from which loud, ecstatic moans can be heard for seemingly miles around.—
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Left to die, breathless and alone, Invisigal chokes while Robert screams from the other end of the comms.—
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That stretch screams points, and the wise move might be to start planning your route to Salah.—
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For one, the choice to keep football out of the Canton mall development gets some pushback and publicity, including from a former Cleveland Browns player who cries on the news about it.—
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The majority of the action, however, unfolds in a claustrophobic one-shot inside a tent, with our heroes quaking at the whoops and cries surrounding them.—
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Parents of students with disabilities have increasingly resorted to filing complaints with the state over their schools’ failure to educate their children, and most of the time, state investigators have agreed.—
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MacLeod said many of the complaints his organization hears are like the Johnsons’ and involve third-party utility billing companies hired by landlords.—
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“Hollers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollers. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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