Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
Sail ho!
halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
What noise there, ho?
Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
"I'll hit you again, you thief !” he cried angrily, shaking “Ho-ho-ho!” he croaked.
A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
There is no ho with them.
A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
To act as a ho, to prostitute.
She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.
To care, be anxious, to long.
A Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
A surname.
Initialism of Heckler-Ohlin (thereom).
From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).
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Bros before hoes!
A woman in general; a bitch.
Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.
A Central-Eastern Indian Adivasi tribe numbering around 1 million, mainly following the religion of Sarna Dhorom
Initialism of head office.
To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.