Definitions for Sally

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Sally sal·ly

Spelling: [sal-ee]

IPA: /ˈsæl i/

Sally is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Sally (allsy).

Definitions for Sally

noun

1. a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
2. a sudden rushing forth or activity.
3. an excursion or trip, usually off the main course.
4. an outburst or flight of passion, fancy, etc.:
5. a clever, witty, or fanciful remark.
6. Carpentry. a projection, as of the end of a rafter beyond the notch by which the rafter is fitted over the wall plate.
7. a female given name, form of Sarah.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a sally, as a body of troops from a besieged place.
2. to set out on a side trip or excursion.
3. to set out briskly or energetically.
4. (of things) to issue forth.

Origin of Sally

1535-45; Middle French saillie attack, noun use of feminine past participle of saillir to rush forward Latin salīre to leap

Examples for Sally

Just try to find a mention of sally Hemings at the Jefferson Memorial.

sally Beauty has also partnered with Susan G. Komen to sell special pink cosmetic products.

Among these rocks, now, he would stand no chance with sally.

sally Beauty did not respond for comment by the time this article was published.

All in all, Gray Peter was a glorious machine; sally was a tricky intelligence.

He looked at his hero, and then he looked into his mind and saw the picture of sally.

Gray Peter had been fresher than sally at the end of the run of the day before.

My father lost his last surviving sibling, my Aunt sally, in 2007.

The laughter at this sally was all it should have been, even the host joining in it.

KSM enters the complex through a “sally Port,” a series of gates designed to allow just one vehicle in at a time.