heyexclamation
uk/heɪ/us/heɪ/informalA2 used as a way of attracting someone's attention, sometimes in a way that is not very polite:
Hey! What are you doing with my car?
Hey, are you guys coming to Angela's party?
mainly US used as a greeting:
Hey Brad! How you doing?
More examples
- Hey! What do you think you're doing?
- Hey! Where are you two going?
- Hey, you!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: sounds used as interjections
- aah
- achoo
- bam
- blah
- cor
- duh
- er
- hah
- huh
- humph
- oops
- ow
- phooey
- shush
- tsk
- tut
- uh
- uh-uh
- whoops
- yada yada yada
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Idiom(s)
what the hey