Crossword clues for hurrah
hurrah
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hurrah \Hur*rah"\ Hurra \Hur*ra"\, interj. [Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. hurra. Cf. Huzza.] A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome.
Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre.
--Macaulay.
Hurrah \Hur*rah"\, n. A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.
Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.]
A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen.
--Mrs.
Stowe.
Hurrah \Hur*rah"\, v. i. To utter hurrahs; to huzza.
Hurrah \Hur*rah"\, v. t. To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, alteration of huzza, similar to shouts recorded in German, Danish, Swedish. Perhaps picked up during Thirty Years' War. Hurra was said to be the battle-cry of Prussian soldiers during the War of Liberation (1812-13). Hooray is its popular form and is almost as old. Also hurray (1780); hurroo (1824); hoorah (1798).
Wiktionary
alt. Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness. interj. Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness. n. A cheer; a cry of ''hurrah!''. vb. (context transitive intransitive English) To give a hurrah (to somebody).
WordNet
n. a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" [syn: hooray]
v. shout `hurrah!'
Wikipedia
Hurrah was a nightclub located at 36 West 62nd Street in New York City from 1976 until 1980. Hurrah was the first large dance club in NYC to feature punk, new wave and industrial music, led by the club's innovative in-house DJs Bill Bahlman, Sara Salir and Charlie Brown. Hurrah pioneered the use of music videos in nightclubs, placing video monitors around the club, over a year before the launch of MTV. The club was owned by Arthur Weinstein (who also created The World and the afterhours clubs The Jefferson and The Continental) and his partners, who opened the club in November 1976, months before Studio 54.
With Ruth Polsky as the booking agent, Hurrah became known as a place for new wave, punk and post-punk bands to play, featuring many of the British bands' first American performances. Bands playing the club included the Cure, Suicide, the Skids, the Fleshtones, Ultravox, Johnny Thunders, Liquid Liquid, the Student Teachers, Klaus Nomi, Tuxedomoon, the Units, the Sleepers, 8-Eyed Spy (with Lydia Lunch), ESG, the Fuzztones, Mission of Burma, the Slits, the Specials, Bauhaus and the Feelies. After the suicide of Ian Curtis, the members of Joy Division regrouped and played their first gig in New York as New Order at the club on September 26, 1980, opening for A Certain Ratio.
On April 16, 1978, the comedy play The Neon Woman, starring Divine, opened at Hurrah. It ran for 84 performances, closing on July 15, 1978.
The club became notorious for an incident in December 1978, where during a Skafish gig, Sid Vicious got into a fight with Todd Smith (brother of Patti Smith,) resulting in the incarceration of Vicious for two months in Rikers Island. David Bowie was filmed in the club for his music video for the song "Fashion" in 1980.
Famed New York club doorman Haoui Montaug worked as the doorman for Hurrah.
Hurrah, originally Huzzah, an exclamation
Hurrah or sometimes Hurrah! may refer to:
- Hurrah!, British jangle pop band
- Hurrah (nightclub), a New York City nightclub, now closed
- Hurrah Pass, a mountain pass in Utah
- '' Hurrah! A Year of Ta-Dah, DVD by the Scissor Sisters
- '' Hurrah, the School Is Burning, (German:Hurra, die Schule brennt), 1969 German comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs
- Hurrah Hurrah Apocalypse – The Definitive Video Collection, DVD, containing almost all videoclips by the Swedish band Army of Lovers
- '' Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness, EP by Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
Hurrah is a 1998 Australian film directed by Frank Shields about a man living on his own in an isolated farm property who is visited by a mysterious woman.
Usage examples of "hurrah".
Savage made no comment, and the silence caused Hurrah more discomfort.
Mounted post at Little Sleepy, told about being locked up, about Blasted John Davis and Hurrah Stevens leaving in their plane.
When he awakened, which was no more than five or ten minutes later, Hurrah was gone, and there were the marks of the legendary bear.
Mounted post, Blasted John Davis wailing about the disappearance of Hurrah Stevens, and demanding that they do all kinds of wild things in an effort to find him.
They were all craft belonging to the Hurrah Lumber and Pulp Company, ships assigned for the private transportation of company executives.
Hurrah Stevens, President and Owner of the gigantic lumber and pulp empire which was controlled by the parent concern, the Hurrah Lumber and Pulp Company, had disappeared, together with the local general manager, Blasted John Davis, there was normal consternation.
Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Nell Grunow, Blasted John Davis and Hurrah Stevens were prisoners.
They could hear Hurrah Stevens moaning, gasping, hear him being dragged.
A second ball whistled over his head, and cut in two the nearest of the three native boats, while a loud hurrah burst forth on board the DUNCAN.
Their response, therefore, was to shout hurrah and stomp about and lift Jonathan onto their shoulders and carry him up and down Main Street.
The moment they set foot on the deck of the DUNCAN, the piper blew his bagpipes, and commenced the national pibroch of the Malcolm clan, while loud hurrahs rent the air.
Consequently, the hurrahs which greeted the return of Lord Glenarvan to the yacht soon gave place to dejection.
And instead of the deadly silence the whole place rang with the sound of happy roarings, brayings, yelpings, barkings, squealings, cooings, neighings, stampings, shouts, hurrahs, songs and laughter.
I get me from my skyey throne, and dye Deep in the ruddy stream my talons grey-- Hurrah!
The Slovak who had provided his own trombone and the Slovak who had been assigned the cornet blared some kind of Slovak hurrah.