Hip Hip Hooray (Hooray may also be spelled and pronounced Hoorah, Hurrah, Hurray etc.) is a cheering called out to express praise or approbation toward someone or something, in the English speaking world. By a sole speaker, it is a form of interjection. In a group, it takes the form of call and response: the cheer is initiated by one person exclaiming "Three cheers for...[someone or something]" (or, more archaically, "Three times three"[1]), then calling out "Hip Hip" (archaically, "Hip Hip Hip") three times, each time being responded by "Hooray".
The call was recorded in England in the beginning of the 19th century in connection with making a toast.[2] It has been suggested that the word "Hip" stems from a medieval Latin acronym, "Hierosylma Est Perdita", meaning "Jerusalem is lost",[3][4] a term that gained notoriety in the German Hep hep riots. Another claim is that the Europeans picked up the Mongol exclamation "hooray" as an enthusiastic cry of bravado and mutual encouragement, according to Jack Weatherford's book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.[5]