Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
A shout of halloo.
List, list, I hear Som far off hallow break the silent Air.
From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
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There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.
To chase with shouts or outcries.
If I fly, Coriolanus, Holloa me like a hare.