rebel yell
Example Sentences
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"It was a ball to do. Hopefully people will see it and let out a little rebel yell."
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2023
He was cleanshaven and well mannered with a little rebel yell underneath.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2018
“Life on Mars” was tender and vulnerable, while “Ziggy Stardust” throbbed with yearning — a rebel yell comprehensible in any language.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2016
But despite that ubiquitousness, it has never quite lost its rebel yell.
From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2013
The Yankee cheer is much more like ours; but the Confederate officers declare that the rebel yell has a particular merit, and always produces a salutary and useful effect upon their adversaries.
From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon
