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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.
  • NZ|British|slang a round of drinks in a pub, the turn to pay the shot or scot: ''Whose shout?!''
  • Australia|slang a call-out for an emergency services team.

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Verb:

  • colloquial To buy food or drinks for others.
  • Internet To enter a text message (for example, email) in upper case.
  • intransitive To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
  • To treat with shouts or clamor.
  • transitive To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.

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