Country Dictionary

Expression used when excitement ensues.

Hooray for Pokey!

an expression used when unusual extreme happiness occurs inside the body

Tim: Bob, you just won a million dollars! Bob: hooray!

A hooray (also Hooray Benry) is in British English, an upper-class male, probably university-age or a bit older, who thinks it's amusing to be loud, and rude to social 'inferiors',and the locals, especially waitresses. (In 'Trainspotting', the book not the film, a waitress hets her revenge by putting her tampon in a Hooray's soup before she serves it to him.) They wear striped shirts and try to talk a bit deeper than normal people.

I'm glad I didn't go to university in Edinburgh, it's full of Hoorays.

Strine (Australian) for Goodbye. Appears to be closely related to Hoo Roo, another Aussie/Kiwi (?) version of Goodbye.

Bill: See ya later Fred Fred: Hooray Bill

An exultation of joy, similar to hooray but on a wholly different scale.

You're going to give me an island of equal or lesser value? Hoorays!

A word you say when you totally stay numb under when it happens.

Hooray, another rainy day

the phonetic pronunciation of whore. Get it -- who + re

whoa man! Don't go messin' with my photoshopping! Step off hooray!