Usually means: Informal greeting or attention getter.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Hey:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hey: Merriam-Webster
  2. hey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hey, Hey, hey: Wordnik
  6. hey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Hey, hey: Wiktionary
  8. hey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hey: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hey, hey: Dictionary.com
  12. hey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. hey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hey (Bic Runga song), Hey (EP), Hey (Flow song), Hey (Lil Jon song), Hey (Mitchel Musso song), Hey (band), Hey (interjection), Hey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Hey: Rhymezone
  18. hey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hey: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. hey: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. hey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hey: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hey: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HEY: Acronym Finder
  2. HEY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hey: The Folk File
  3. HEY, HEY: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hey)

noun:  (country dancing) A choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative spelling of he (“Hebrew letter”) [(uncountable) The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".]

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