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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