hollering

verb

present participle of holler
1
as in screaming
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely another city council meeting with residents hollering about the unsatisfactory collection of garbage

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2
as in yelling
to speak so as to be heard at a distance there's no need to holler; I'm in the next room

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Recent Examples of hollering Perhaps even more notable was his volume at prospect camp practice on Friday, hooting and hollering and firing up his teammates. — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The stallion gallops onto the field every time the team scores a touchdown, adding to the reverberating noise of fans hooting and hollering in the stands. — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 The speakerphone gets loud, about 105dB if someone is hollering at you. — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026 More than 40,000 patrons crammed into Wrigley Field and the Cubs fans in the crowd were hooting and hollering after their team took a 5-0 lead through six innings Saturday, following a 16-2 win on Friday. — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026 Timothée Chalamet exited through the same tunnel and was also hooting and hollering with his fellow Knicks fans. — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 11 June 2026 Down the way, a bunch of young fellas were hooting and hollering. — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026 None of these words mean anything to me, but there was more hooting and hollering for this announcement in the press section of Caesar's than for any other piece of news today, so that's gotta count for something. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Apr. 2026 Those take-one-for-the-team moments had the Lakers’ reserves up and hollering. — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hollering
  1. screaming
  2. yelling
  3. complaining
  4. shouting
  5. whining
  6. crying
  7. muttering
  8. moaning
Verb
  • Wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, who had seven catches for 133 yards and a touchdown, was screaming at coaches and teammates on the sideline at the start of the fourth quarter.
    — Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, who was held to seven catches for 133 yards and a touchdown, was screaming at coaches and teammates on the sideline at the start of the fourth quarter.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of screaming
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  • Vision is still frustrated and furious over the ways Ultron tricked and used him, but yelling at an opponent that won’t get riled in return isn’t satisfying.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The video, which is blurry from the officer's movement, captures yelling and the sound of a single gunshot, followed by several additional gunshot noises.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of yelling
Verb
  • By July, morale among immigration officers had dipped below its nadir during the Biden Administration, with agents now complaining of being overextended, inundated with novice recruits, and undermined by inflammatory rhetoric from on high.
    — Francisco Cantú, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Some 35,000 plaintiffs were compensated after complaining of personal injury and property damage to their homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of complaining
Verb
  • Ultimately, though, many workers want to be at a business that rewards people for actually doing the hard work—not just shouting the most about it.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In one video, Basabe appears to raise his voice at a man before turning around and shouting at a woman.
    — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of shouting
Verb
  • Just thank God you were born female and stop whining over your bad choices.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • While the left spent all week whining about Sophie Cunningham's hat and firing squad best practices, us PATRIOTS were biding our time, keeping our heads down, and grinding towards another weekend.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of whining
Verb
  • Following the reading of the verdict at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Salman broke down crying and was consoled by members of her defense team.
    — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • And at the end of the election, Election Day, his opponent was crying.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of crying
Verb
  • The only thing left in the field was a distraught college kid, pacing back and forth, muttering to himself, and suffering over what might have been.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Max Muncy, whose home run expanded the Dodgers’ lead, was still muttering about the heat nearly 15 minutes after escaping into air conditioning.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of muttering
Verb
  • It's been a big few months for Austin Abrams moaning and groaning his way through some of the worst situations imaginable.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • For a cold moment the silence locked a grip on our table, though it was broken, at the edges, by the golf commentators moaning and harrumphing, Rory McIlroy having had a canary on a seventeenth fairway somewhere this championship Sunday.
    — Kevin Barry, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of moaning

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“Hollering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollering. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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