Definition of "walla" []

• Variant of wallah. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The first thing I did to make a little bit of a living is I used to do what they call "walla," which is the background voices on all the show."
• "But wait - there's more, there's the ting tang walla walla bing bang tropical sugarcane chant of "Mehenatta," the heavy upswim from sleep on a Sunday morning when you can see by the light in the room it's much later than you thought and you're hearing "Sunday Dub" and you can smell the espresso brewing."
• "And even though I am grateful for all the technology and connectedness at my fingertips, and understand the need of the camel walla to stay in touch with his people when he travels through the desert too, I still wish the only sounds that day were my thoughts, the wind and the camels, and not Ali's incessant Nokia ringtone."