hist

About 3.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. interjection An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
2. interjection An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
3. noun An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
4. noun Abbreviation of history.
5. verb Pronunciation spelling of hoist.

Similar words

rpt eccles ory psst shush sh shh hush hark hush-hush

Often followed by

of soc de med sec

Word family

histed histing hists hoist