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ho

Short definition from Wiktionary

Interjection

  1. Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
  2. halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
  3. Said accompanying a vigorous attack.

Noun

  1. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
  2. A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
  3. A woman in general; a bitch.
  4. Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
  5. Initialism of head office.
  6. Initialism of holy orders.
  7. Abbreviation of HO scale.
  8. A Central-Eastern Indian Adivasi tribe numbering around 1 million, mainly following the religion of Sarna Dhorom

Verb

  1. To act as a ho, to prostitute.
  2. To care, be anxious, to long.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Heckler-Ohlin (thereom).
  2. Initialism of Home Office.
  3. A Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
  4. A surname.

Symbol

  1. Chemical symbol for holmium.

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