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The sound a sentence makes when it finally gets good news.

means An exclamation of joy, approval, or triumph, shouted when something good happens.

from Likely a variant of 'huzzah,' an older cheer sailors and soldiers used, which itself may have started as a hoisting-and-hauling grunt before it became a shout of triumph. 'Hooray' and its cousin 'hurray' settled in as the everyday version, the one crowds and children reach for without thinking — nobody owns a patent on the exact moment it split off, it just did, the way cheers tend to evolve by repetition rather than decree.

origin
Likely from older cheer huzzah, 17th century
linguistic cousin
Related to hurrah and German hurra
usage tell
Often sarcastic when preceded by a long pause
grammar role
Interjection, grammatically allergic to subtlety
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