holla back

plural holla backs · alternative holler back

1. countableinformaluncountableA holler back; a reply.
2. countableinformaluncountableAn echo of voices, much like the response of a crowd to a cheerleader.
3. informaluncountableFeedback.

present singular third person hollas back · participle present hollaing back · participle past hollaed back · past hollaed back · alternative holler back

1. informalAfrican-American VernacularTo reply.

   “Earth to Kimi, holla back,” Yvonne taunts after I miss another easy serve.

   2008, Sandra Foy, This Life Isn't Perfect Holla, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   When depression or breakdown is hollerin' at you . . . . holla back. When temptation or weakness is hollerin' at you . . . . holla back.

   2012, Vanessa Clark, Essential Encouragement: Poetry with a Purpose, →ISBN, page 71

   “Holla back, girl! Where are you?” Mara asked, feeling a flush of happiness at hearing Eliza's throaty voice.

   2013, Melissa de la Cruz, Sun-Kissed, →ISBN, page 80

2. slangAfrican-American VernacularTo make or respond to romantic or sexual overtures.

   So holla back at me beautiful sista girl Let this chocolate lover into your chocolate world

   2007, Eldon M. Thomas, Poems by E Presents from the Light to the Darkness and Back to Life, page 1434324362

   3 more examples

   I have a goatee, moustache, and medium thick eyebrows. Here to meet some cool peeps so Holla back at your Boy.

   2003, Qvmagazine - Volume 6, Issues 1-2

   “Anyway,” She grabbed his dick through his black silk boxers, “I'll holla back big man."

   2009, Ian J. Findlay, Saunie Brown, Women: The New Doggs, →ISBN

   You don't break up with me then try to holla back at me. So that's when she called asking if we can have a sexual type of relationship.

   2010, M. L. Matthews, I Am Not the Father: Narratives of Men Falsely Accused of Paternity, →ISBN, page 78

3. informalAfrican-American VernacularTo contact again at a later time.

   I'll holla back at you later, he wrote, ending our conversation.

   2012, Earl Sewell, Back To Me, →ISBN

   3 more examples

   Holla back when you get outta church. just got ya message, i saw it when it popped up.

   2006, Sexton Classford, The Reading: What You Knew You Didn't Know, →ISBN, page 30

   I feel ya man, go set her straight on Cally and holla back at me.

   2009, Adriana Jai Wynn-Yeldell, Climbing Trees and Hiding in the Bushes, →ISBN, page 338

   “Alright I'll do that and holla back on Monday with the 411. Talk to you soon cuz."

   2010, Tamika Davis, If I Knew Back Then What I Know Now, →ISBN, page 39