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Noun: ho (hos,hoes)  how
Usage: US, offensive
  1. A sexually loose woman
    - prostitute, fornicatrix [informal]
     
  2. Someone, esp. a woman, who engages in sexual intercourse for money
    "The historical novel depicted the life of a ho in Victorian London";
    - prostitute [informal], cyprian [archaic, informal], prozzie [slang], wench [archaic], trull [archaic]
Interjection: ho  how
  1. Exclamation of joy, surprise, triumph, suspicion, etc.
    - ha, hah
Noun: Ho
  1. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
    - holmium, atomic number 67

Sounds like: hoards, hor, ho

Derived forms: Hos, hos

Type of: adult female, metal, metallic element, woman

Part of: gadolinite, ytterbite

Encyclopedia: Ho, Matthew