1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 46 Hollar, a halloo.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Holler,..the cry given when the quarry is seen; the view-halloo.

1896 G. Ade Artie xvi. 147 I put up a holler right at the jump.

1901 ‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft 133 Some gamblers were particularly loud in making their ‘hollers’, and threatened to bring about an investigation.

1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 13 Holler, plaint of a victim.

1936 J. A. Lomax & A. Lomax Negro Folk-songs ii. iii. 113 The holler is a way of singing—free, gliding from a sustained high note down to the lowest register.

1939 Congress. Rec. 5 Aug. App. 3975/1 [Will Rogers] came across the American scene with..a hoot and a ‘holler’, and a laugh.

1940 J. W. Work Amer. Negro Songs 34 Approaching his house or that of his sweetheart in the evening, or sometimes out of sheer lonesomeness, he would emit his ‘holler’.

1940 J. W. Work Amer. Negro Songs 35 In these ‘hollers’ the idiomatic material found in the blues is readily seen.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) i. 10 The street-cry and field-holler of the American Negro are earlier examples of the same tradition.

1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz i. 20 Solo work-songs of field-hands..took the form of ‘hollers’ or ‘arwhoolies’—long meandering cries that were half-sung thoughts and half yodels.

1959 R. Condon Manchurian Candidate (1962) vii. 137 If you're ever around Wainwright, Alaska, you'll give me a holler.

1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues 4 The more primitive examples of field cries, hollers and work songs, of children's game songs and unaccompanied blues were only heard on record in the rarest of instances.

1845 W. T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas 151 [I] putt off emediately fur watur that I node waz klose down the holler.

1947 V. Randolph & G. P. Wilson (title) Down in the holler: a gallery of Ozark folk speech.

1972 J. S. Hall Sayings from Old Smoky 8 Many of these stock boasts hinge on the steepness or wildness of the mountain country, the darkness of the ‘hollers’, even in midday, and the hardihood of the people.

1699 in Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 67 We gott to the River side oppisett to the ffort, & theire hollerd & Immediately they answered.

1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing xvi. 37 There's forty thousand folks setting of 'em on and all hollering ‘stooboy’.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xiv. 101 Provided you knew how ‘to holler’, within hearing of both.

1845 W. T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas 41 Who hollered? Which gave up?

1852 Notes & Queries 14 Feb. 148/2 The village boys..get some halfpence given them for their ‘hollering’.

1859 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 239/2 Here is a boy that loves to..‘holler’ Fire! on slight evidence.

1883 S. Baring-Gould John Herring I. i. 7 Cobbledick..said, ‘If you holler, I'll smash your head’.

1898 C. M. Yonge John Keble's Parishes xv. 175 Curate. Have you heard the nightingale yet? Boy. Please, sir, I don't know how he hollers. Everything hollers, from a church bell to a mouse in a trap.

1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ viii. 155 I'll holler up to you, Max, when we're ready down below.

1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 249/2 Hollar, complain.

1926 J. Black You can't Win iv. 43 Holler before you're hurt; that's my motto.

1934 National Geographic Mag. LXV. 624/2 Daybreak and sundown are favorite times for ‘holerin'’. It is an invariable accompaniment of driving the cattle home in the evening.

1936 J. A. Lomax & A. Lomax Negro Folk-songs ii. iii. 113 He has hollered and moaned his troubles and his observations on the ways of the world.

1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iv. i. 343 And when I holler run, you run. You hear me?

1967 Boston Globe 30 Mar. 14/1 Everyone hollers about the damage to the children if the schools are shut one day because of a teacher–school committee disagreement.

1969 Times 22 July (Moon Report Suppl.) p. ii/3 When Colonel Aldrin jumped off the last step of the moon ladder..everyone in the Aldrin home was whooping and hollering.

1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 66 (caption) Arthur Crudup ‘hollers’ with a high-pitched voice.

1973 J. Thomson Death Cap xiii. 177 I'll holler you to come down.