Definition of "huzzas" [huzzas]

• Plural form of huzza; alternative spelling of huzzahs. (noun)

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• "The participants, who numbered in the hundreds, returned to the site of Fort Frederick, raised a thirty-six-foot pine tree with the Constitution at its top on the very spot where the “Antis” had burned it that morning, played music, shouted huzzas, shot more cannon, then took the tree and the Constitution down and paraded them through the town."
• "Meantime the King, leaving Napoleon in the chateau to ruminate on the fickleness of fortune, drove off to see his own victorious soldiers, who greeted him with huzzas that rent the air, and must have added to the pangs of the captive Emperor."
• "They jumped into the boats in the highest spirits, and bade adieu to Goree with repeated huzzas."