Definition of rebel yell
: a prolonged high-pitched yell often uttered by Confederate soldiers in the American Civil War
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His face is contorted into a deranged smirk, his eyebrows raised and his teeth bared, as if fixing around that shrill yawp of the rebel yell.
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First Known Use of rebel yell
1862
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