Meanings
holla1
- alternativeAlternative form of hollo.
Holla, there! Holla, there, I say! What the devil are you about with my master's box-coat?
1828, The Lairds of Fife, page 163
present singular third person hollas · participle present hollaing · participle past hollaed · past hollaed
- alternativeAlternative form of hollo.
holla2
present singular third person hollas · participle present hollaing · participle past hollaed · past hollaed
- colloquialTo shout out or greet casually.
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.
2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 206
- colloquialwhat's up; a greeting
- African-American Vernacularused to express interest in a woman
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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holla. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/holla
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