holler
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- noun
- /ˈhɑːlər/
- US
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hondonada (EE. UU., regional)
- The children loved to explore the small holler behind their house, filled with wildflowers.
So we here we were on the road in the back hollers, you know, with people who lived in tarp paper shacks, Dolly.
- So we here we were on the road in the back hollers, you know, with people who lived in tarp paper shacks, Dolly.
Examples
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They live in the hollers.
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Down a dirt road cradled between two gnarled, unfriendly mountains, Poplar Holler guarded its mysteries.
Fiction book (2001) -
You come up the holler.
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One day, they come to him, offering to buy his land right up that holler.
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The new road went farther into the holler, into the trees.
Fiction book (1991) -
My spot used to be on the ridge, but now it's down here in the holler.
Fiction book (2000) -
In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler
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You get out of this holler alive, son, you'll be doing good for yourself.
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Lots of people in the hollers still believe that the census people are a threat to them.
Blog text (27) -
Surely there are old songs floating around those mountain hollers that have never been recorded.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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A small low area between hills
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word holler comes from the word hollow, which means 'a low, empty place'. So a holler is simply a little hollow in the land — a narrow valley between hills.