Usually means: A derogatory term for woman.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ho, ho: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Ho, Ho, ho, ho, ho: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Ho, Ho, ho, ho: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. H.O, ho, ho: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ho: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ho, ho, hO: Wordnik
  7. ho: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. HO, 'ho, ho: Wiktionary
  9. ho: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Ho, ho: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ho: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ho, h.o, ho, ho: Dictionary.com
  13. ho: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ho: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. HO, Ho (Korean name), Ho (disambiguation), Ho (kana), Ho, Ho: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ho: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ho: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Ho: Rhymezone
  19. Ho: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ho: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. HO: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. HO, Ho: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. ho: Free Dictionary
  24. ho: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Ho, ho: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HO: Netlingo
  2. Ho: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HO: UK Medical Acronyms
  3. H.O: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Ho: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HO: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. Ho: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basic Terms of Shinto (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HO, Ho: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  2. Ho: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ho, ho, ho, ho: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ho: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. H.O, The Ho, h.o, ho, ho, ho, ho: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. H.O: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See hoing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
noun:  (slang, offensive) A woman in general; a bitch.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To act as a ho, to prostitute.
noun:  (obsolete) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
verb:  (obsolete) To care, be anxious, to long.
noun:  A Central-Eastern Indian Adivasi tribe numbering around 1 million, mainly following the religion of Sarna Dhorom
noun:  A Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (economics) Initialism of Heckler-Ohlin (thereom).
noun:  (UK) Initialism of Home Office. [(British, UK politics) The British government department, headed by the Home Secretary, responsible for security and law enforcement in England and Wales.]
noun:  (business) Initialism of head office. [The main administrative centre for a company or organisation.]
noun:  (religion) Initialism of holy orders. [(Christianity) The sacrament of ordination to the rank of minister or (in Catholicism and Orthodoxy) deacon, priest, or bishop.]
noun:  Abbreviation of HO scale. [(US, Australia) A popular scale for model railroads; 1:87 scale]

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