Meanings
nounhooroosh (plural hoorooshes)
plural hoorooshes · alternative hurroosh
- datedA commotion.
Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft there!
1851, Herman Melville, chapter 120, in Moby-Dick1 more example
Under cover of a hooroosh by the Manchester, the Gurkhas have rushed a bluff 600 yards ahead of our line and are sticking to their winnings.
1920, Sir Ian Hamilton, Gallipoli Diary
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