soho

1. obsoleteho; halloo; a word used in calling from a distant place.

   Proteus: Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out. Launce: Soho, soho! Proteus: What seest thou? Launce: Him we go to find […]

   c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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   He then began to beat about, in the same language and in the same manner as if he had been beating for a hare; and at last cried out, "Soho! Puss is not far off. Here's her form, upon my soul; I believe I may cry stole away."

   1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

1. An area of the West End, in central London.

   I woke up in a Soho doorway / A policeman knew my name / He said, "You can go, sleep at home tonight / if you can get up and walk away."

   1978, The Who, “Who Are You”, in Who Are You

1. An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of SoHo: An area of Manhattan, New York.

   The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.

   2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2016

plural SOHOs · alternative SoHo

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of Small Office, Home Office.

   I bet if you look at the average home or SOHO PC, that it will have an old version of Java installed, […]

   2008 December 14, sm5w2@yahoo.com, “Re: What is the difference between Java JRE 5.x and 6.x (1.5.x / 1.6.x) ???”, in comp.lang.java.programmer (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2008, message-ID <1553486c-1c35-4dcb-bccd-d656615e4a44@q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com>

1. abbreviationinitialismaerospaceInitialism of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (A spacecraft of the ESA and NASA).

plural SoHos · alternative soho · alternative SOHO · alternative Soho

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of small office, home office.

alternative Soho

1. A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

alternative Soho

1. A neighbourhood of Central and Western district, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

   The fire started in a flat at No 9 on Gough Street at Shun King Building in the SoHo area of Sheung Wan at about 10.20pm.

   2024 September 10, Danny Mok, “Woman dies, 3 others injured in fire that broke out in Hong Kong’s SoHo”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2024, Hong Kong/Society

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   There's an apartment building sitting on top of the hill of Soho in Hong Kong that is very atmospherically noir, so it's really too bad we couldn't film there.

   [2017 October, CHANG Yeongyeop, quoting Park Hoon-jung, “Interview Director PARK Hoon-jung on V.I.P.”, in Korean Cinema Today, volume 29, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1

   When he heard about Omnipork at the Food’s Future Summit in Hong Kong last year, he contacted Right Treat to give it a try, and eventually added it to the vegetarian mapo tofu at his restaurant in the city’s SoHo district.

   2019 March 18, Andrew Genung, “It’s the Year of the Pig. Is it also the year fake pork takes off in China?”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2019, Food

   At No. 3 Staunton Street in the city’s SoHo district, the roughly 1,300 square-foot ground floor was once used as a parking space for a Ferrari.

   2023 March 22, Christy Choi, “Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023, Art & Design