English

Verb
cry havoc

1. obsolete To shout out 'Havoc!'; that is, to give an army the order to plunder.

Quotations
1599, Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war — Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
1608, Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt— Shakespeare, Coriolanus

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