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whoa

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whoa  (hw, w)
interj.
Used as a command to stop, as to a horse.
whoa [wəʊ]
interj
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Training, Riding & Manège) a command used esp to horses to stop or slow down
[variant of ho1]
Translations
whoa [wəʊ] EXCL → ¡so!
whoa
interj → brr
whoa [wəʊ] excl (also whoa there) → altolà!
whoa [wəʊ] excl (also whoa there) → altolà!


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But I know enough to obey my masters, and to gid-dup, or whoa, when I'm told to.
Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
“And when the proud forest is falling, To my oxen cheerfully calling, From morn until night I am bawling, Whoa, back there, and haw and gee; Till our labor is mutually ended, By my strength and cattle befriended, And against the mosquitoes defended By the bark of the walnut-trees.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
As if Nature could support but one order of understandings, could not sustain birds as well as quadrupeds, flying as well as creeping things, and hush and whoa, which Bright can understand, were the best English.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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