Definition of Hooray Henry in English:
Hooray Henry
nounPlural Hooray Henries, Plural Hooray Henrys huːreɪ ˈhɛnri
British informal A lively but ineffectual young upper-class man.
a bunch of Hooray Henrys with more money than sense
Example sentencesExamples
- News footage from Britain in 1987 shows champagne-swilling Hooray Henrys uncorking Bolly in celebration of Nigel Lawson's tax-cutting budget.
- There will be no crackdown on Hooray Henrys spilling out of champagne bars and abusing people.
- The younger members, the aforesaid Hooray Henries, think they have the right to ride their horses roughshod wherever they like causing substantial damage.
- If the plan works, there will be no images of Hooray Henries, outlandish hedonism or general drunkenness in the tabloids on Friday morning.
- Despite their portrayal as Hooray Henrys in knotted hankies, the Lions supporters have been wonderfully good-tempered.
- If colleges really did take students on the basis of their father's money they would end up with a bunch of Hooray Henrys and lose all credibility.
- And what would be the academics' motives for selecting less able Hooray Henrys to teach for the next three years?
- ‘Educated’ at Harrow public school, Mark stood out even among his fellow Hooray Henrys, earning the nickname ‘Thickie’.
- A Hooray Henry of the most braying sort regaled his two female acquaintances - and thus the entire carriage - with his stories of earning obscene amounts of money at an investment bank.
- He ought already to have condemned the Hooray Henrys who disrupted the Commons.