give someone the old heave-ho
"give-someone-the-old-heave-ho" is a 24-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“give someone the old heave-ho” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of give someone the heave-ho.
Corpus desk
Index EN-give-someone-the-old-hea · give someone the old heave-ho · English
give someone the old heave-ho · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 29 letters
- VOW-12 12 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | give someone the old heave-ho |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “give someone the old heave-ho” in English
Rare enough to double-check
give someone the old heave-ho is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of give someone the heave-ho.".
give someone the old heave-ho doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is give someone the old heave-ho, spelled G-I-V-E- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E- -T-H-E- -O-L-D- -H-E-A-V-E---H-O.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of give someone the heave-ho.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how give someone the old heave-ho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Possibly a lot of them gained entry because there were so many other strange bees in the hive, but once they started to load up and run, the natives joined with the old ones and gave them the old heave-ho.
Now I won't have to explain to her what sort of friend you really were and why I gave you the old heave-ho.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.