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(hā) 
interj.
Used to attract attention or to express surprise, appreciation, wonder, or pleasure.
interj.
Used to attract attention or to express surprise, appreciation, wonder, or pleasure.
REGIONAL NOTE Traditionally, hey was just an exclamation. Sometimes it expressed delight, sometimes a warning. Nowadays we find it used for emphasis as well, especially in the expression but hey. It is also a greeting. It is a short, colloquial version of How are you? and thus close kin to the informal salutation hi, which it seems to be replacing in many situations. Until recently, this greeting had a distinctly Southern flavor. The national survey conducted in the 1960s by the Dictionary of American Regional English found hey as a greeting restricted chiefly to Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The friendly hey has since spread throughout the United States.
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IN BRIEF: Interjection to grab someone's attention.
Tutor's tip: The farmer yelled "hey" (said to attract someone's attention) to the children jumping on the newly cut "hay" (grass used as feed).
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Hey may refer to:
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Music
- Hey (band), a Polish rock band
Albums
- Hey! (Julio Iglesias album), or the title song
- Hey! (Jullie album), or the title song
- Hey! Album, by Marvelous 3
- Hey! (The Gruesomes album), by The Gruesomes
- Hey (Toni Price album), by Toni Price
- Hey: A Pixies Tribute, a Pixies tribute album
Songs
- "Hey" (Bic Runga song)
- "Hey" (Lil Jon song), 2010
- "Hey" (Mitchel Musso song), 2009
- "Hey!" (song), by Masaharu Fukuyama
- "Hey", by Gillmor, opening theme for the U.S. sitcom Unhitched
- "Hey", by the Goo Goo Dolls from Hold Me Up
- "Hey", by Hanson from Underneath
- "Hey!", by The Hellacopters from Payin' the Dues
- "Hey", by Leeland from Sound of Melodies
- "Hey!", by MF Doom from Operation: Doomsday
- "Hey", by Movielife from Forty Hour Train Back to Penn
- "Hey!", by Oingo Boingo from Boingo
- "Hey", by the Pixies from Doolittle
- "Hey", by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from Stadium Arcadium
- "Hey", by The Suicide Machines from Destruction by Definition
- "Hey (I've Been Feeling Kind of Lonely)", by Danny Saucedo from Heart Beats
- "Hey! (So What)", by Dannii Minogue from Neon Nights
- "Hey Hey", by Swami
- "Hey, Hey", by Dispatch from Silent Steeples
- "Hey Hey", by The Planet Smashers from No Self Control
- "Hey, Hey, Hey", by Elvis Presley from the soundtrack for the film Clambake
- "Hey, Hey, Hey", by Michael Franti and Spearhead from The Sound of Sunshine
- "Hey! Hey! Hey!", by The Riverboat Gamblers from Something to Crow About
- "Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!", by Little Richard
- "Rock and Roll" (Gary Glitter song), commonly known as "The Hey song"
People
- Dale Hey (born 1945), American wrestler
- Donald Holroyde Hey (1904-1987), British organic chemist
- Jerry Hey, American musician
- Jonathan Hey (born 1979), information scientist
- Tony Hey (born 1946), British computer scientist
- Vic Hey (1912–1995), Australian rugby league football player
- Virginia Hey (born 1962), Australian actress
- William Hey (surgeon) (1736–1819), English surgeon
Other uses
- Hey, a dance figure in English Country Dancing and Morris dancing
- "Hey hey hey!", an exclamation used by the character Fat Albert in the animated TV series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- Hanchey Army Heliport (IATA: HEY), a military heliport serving Fort Rucker in Dale County, Alabama, United States
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Hey
Dansk (Danish)
int. - hej, hvad!
Nederlands (Dutch)
hé!, Jij daar!
Français (French)
int. - hé, hola (excl) (pour attirer l'attention), hein ? (de scepticisme)
Português (Portuguese)
int. - Eh!, Ei!, Eia!
Español (Spanish)
int. - ¡eh!, ¡oye!
Svenska (Swedish)
int. - åh!, nej men!, vad!, hallå!, hej!
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
嗨, 喂
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
int. - 嗨, 喂
한국어 (Korean)
int. - 어이!, 아이고!, 이런!
日本語 (Japanese)
int. - おい, やあ, わーい
العربيه (Arabic)
(نداء) هاي ! هتاف للفت الانتباه أو للتساؤل أو التعجب
עברית (Hebrew)
int. - קריאה שמטרתה לעורר שימת-לב, הלו, היי, קריאה המבטאת גיל, הפתעה, שאלה, התלהבות ועוד
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