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Holler is defined as to yell, shout or call to someone.

(verb)

When you yell at your child, this is an example of a time when you holler at your child.

The definition of a holler is a loud shout, cry or call.

(noun)

A telephone call is an example of a holler.

See holler in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb, transitive verb

Informal to shout or yell

Origin: altered < hollo, holla

noun

a shout or yell
☆ a working song sung by U.S. black field workers

adjective, adverb, noun

Dialectal hollow

See holler in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb hol·lered, hol·ler·ing, hol·lers

verb, intransitive

To yell or shout.
Informal To complain.

verb, transitive

To shout out (words or phrases). See Synonyms at shout.

noun

A yell or shout; a call.
Informal A complaint or gripe.

Origin:

Origin: From obsolete hollo, hail!, stop!; see hello

adjective, v. & n.
Chiefly Upper Southern U.S.

Variant of hollow.

Regional Note: One feature of Upper Southern English and specifically of Appalachian English is its pronunciation of the final unstressed syllable in words such as hollow, window, and potato as (ər). Holler, winder, and tater are merely variant pronunciations reflected in spelling. As a noun, holler has the specific meaning in the Appalachians of “a small valley between mountains”: They live up in the holler underneath Big Bald Mountain.

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