Back هیپ هیپ هورا Persian Hip hip urrà Italian ヒップ・ヒップ・フーレイ Japanese Hiep, hiep, hoera! Dutch Гип-гип ура! Russian Hipp hipp Swedish Гіп-гіп, ура! Ukrainian Hip hip hooray Chinese

Hip hip hooray

"Three cheers" redirects here. For the American musical, see Three Cheers. For the My Chemical Romance album, see Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.
For other uses, see Hip Hip Hurray (disambiguation).

Hip hip hooray (also hippity hip hooray; hooray may also be spelled and pronounced hoorah, hurrah, hurray etc.) is a cheer called out to express congratulation toward someone or something, in the English-speaking world and elsewhere.

By a sole speaker, it is a form of interjection. In a group, it takes the form of call and response: the cheer is initiated by one person exclaiming "Three cheers for...[someone or something]" (or, more archaically, "Three times three"[1][2][3][4]), then calling out "hip hip" (archaically, "hip hip hip") three times, each time being responded by "hooray" or "hurrah".

The cheer continues to be used to express congratulations. In Australia, South Africa, and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom, the cheer is usually expressed after the singing of "Happy Birthday to You".[5] In Canada and the United Kingdom, the cheer has been used to greet and salute the monarch at public events.[6][7]

  1. ^ Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 9. 1834, James Fraser. Google Books. p. 410. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  2. ^ Wright, John Martin Frederick (1827). Alma Mater: Or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge. Black, Young, and Young, p. 19. Google Books.
  3. ^ Byron, Henry James; Davis, Jim (January 19, 1984). Plays by H. J. Byron: The Babes in the Wood, The Lancashire Lass, Our Boys, The Gaiety Gulliver. p. 42. Google Books. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  4. ^ Twain, Mark (1890 - 1910). The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories. Digireads.com Publishing, January 1, 2004. Google Books. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  5. ^ Khalil, Shireen (3 June 2021). "Aussie birthday ritual shocks Americans living Down Under". News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Queen unveils plaque marking navy's 100th". www.cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 29 June 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Queen calls Royal Jubilee a 'humbling experience'". www.ctvnews.ca. BellMedia. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2023.

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