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yoo-hoo

[yoo-hoo]
–interjection
1. (used as an exclamation to get someone's attention, in calling to another person, or the like.)
–verb (used without object)
2. to get or attempt to get someone's attention by or as if by calling “yoo-hoo”: yoo-hooing across the back fence.

Origin:
1920–25, Americanism; of expressive orig.
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yoo-hoo 
exclamation to call attention, 1924.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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