hooroo
To give a cheer of "hooroo".
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Australia
#2·Apr 27, 2026AUS
(Australia, colloquial) Goodbye.
1901–02, Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, ''Darby O'Gill and the Good People, McClure's Magazine'', reprinted 1903, Reilly & Britton, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jUtCAAAAIAAJ&q=%22hooroo%22|%22ooroo%22+-intitle:%22hooroo%22+-inautho…
Origin: From 1700s British hooray or hurray, which was also used in Australia to mean goodbye. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#1·Apr 27, 2026AUS
To give a cheer of "hooroo".
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