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Wiktionary

  1. heave-honoun

    A cry of heave-ho.

    He gives the wrestler the old heave-ho, but he's got not enough heave and too much ho!

  2. heave-honoun

    A rejection, a forced removal (often in the phrase give/get the (old) heave-ho)

  3. heave-hoverb

    to pull forcefully

  4. heave-hointerjection

    exclamation used when pulling, especially by sailors while pulling on a rope

Wikipedia

  1. heave-ho

    Heave Ho (stylized as HEAVE HO!) is a platform party video game developed by Le Cartel Studio and published by Devolver Digital. In Heave Ho, players must navigate their characters through a ravine across a series of increasingly complex levels in order to reach the end goal. The game's physics system allows players to launch their characters to safety through stretching movements and interactions with other player characters. Heave Ho was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Nintendo Switch on August 29, 2019, to a generally positive critical reception, with many critics praising it as an exemplary cooperative video game. A version for Amazon Luna was made available on February 3, 2022.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of heave-ho in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of heave-ho in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of heave-ho in a Sentence

  1. Officer Daniel Hodges:

    The mob of terrorists were coordinating their efforts… shouting ‘heave, ho,’ as they synchronized pushing their weight forward crushing me further against the metal doorframe, a man in front of me grabbed my baton… he bashed me in the head and face with it, rupturing my lip and adding additional injury to my skull.

  2. John Miller:

    The heave-ho of everyone getting through -- you have Oath Keepers next to Proud Boys next to white supremacists, that's what makes this a dangerous time, the movement is energized and Proud Boys're emboldened by surprise success on [ January ] 6th. I think Proud Boys're surprised. Proud Boys didn't plan to Nth degree, and to be able to breach the pillar of democracy, that's going to motivate Proud Boys.

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