HUE AND CRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hue and cry mean? 

• HUE AND CRY (noun)
  The noun HUE AND CRY has 1 sense:

1. loud and persistent outcry from many people

  Familiarity information: HUE AND CRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUE AND CRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud and persistent outcry from many people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clamor; clamoring; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry

Context example:

he ignored the clamor of the crowd

Hypernyms ("hue and cry" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

 Context examples 

As it stands, not one farthing shall you have with my free will, and when I see my brother, the Socman of Minstead, he will raise hue and cry from vill to vill, from hundred to hundred, until you are taken as a common robber and a scourge to the country.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)