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noun (plural: heave-hoes or heave-hos)
- (informal) a rejection, a forced removal (often in the phrase give/get the (old) heave-ho)
- 2002: Days of our Lives (TV, August 8)
- :Why would you think I'm still seeing Colin Murphy? I gave him the , remember?
verb (heave-hoes, heave-hoing, heave-hoed)
- (informal) to pull forcefully
- 1840: Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast
- :They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours;
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