Tarzan yodel

plural Tarzan yodels

1. Tarzan yell

   The boy clambers into Turo's arms and lets out a Tarzan yodel.

   1989 August 29, Islands: An International Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA, page 67, column 1

   2 more examples

   Johnny Weissmuller not only won all the hog calling contests with his Tarzan yodel, but when the report went around that Johnny had blasted all the pollen from the apple trees into Jimmy Cagney's cow pasture with the result that Jimmy's cows gave nothing but apple butter for weeks and weeks, all future hog callings were called off.

   1934 October 29, Photoplay Magazine, Chicago, page 86, column 3

   For his money, the best person he ever heard do the "Tarzan yodel" was Edgar Rice Burroughs' grandson, Danton.

   2004, Bart Plantenga, Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, New York: Routledge, page 300