tallyho
Americannoun
plural
tallyhos-
Chiefly British. a mail coach or a four-in-hand pleasure coach.
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a cry of “tallyho.”
interjection
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of tallyho
1750–60; compare French tayau hunter's cry
Example Sentences
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Rolls Royces and big red buses carts charabancs, here and there a tallyho, moved like gastropoda along the road.
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Senator, Thomas Dodd has ridden out countless investigations on the tallyho end of the chase.
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Now 59-year-old John Cuneo spends much of his time with his family on his farms, where he raises hackney ponies, Palominos and Suffolks, drives his friends about in a tallyho on holidays.
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At Meadow Brook, F. Ambrose Clark appeared, as is his custom, in a black-and-yellow tallyho.
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I had planned to rent the Tuscarora House tallyho and go with some éclat," the lady lamented at the eleventh hour, "but the way people have disappointed me is positively harrowing.
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
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