Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. wild and disorderly.

1848		Bell’s Life in Sydney 23 Dec. 3/1/: The details of a paltry and uninteresting tale, of the most common of all common occurrences a ‘hurrah fight’.
1854		Bell’s Life in Sydney 28 Oct. 2/7: There was a regular hurrah fight which would not have disgraced Tipperary.
1859		Bell’s Life in Sydney 12 Feb. 3/3: The Connaught men had beaten the Munster men in a pitched battle, then vulgarly called a ‘hurrah fight’.
1883		Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 257: The terminus of a railroad in Western Texas [...] is what is called, in the classic vernacular of the country, ‘a hoorah place’.
1932		Blue Valley Farmer 18 Feb. 1/5: He soon falls in with the ‘hurrah’ or criminal element [DA].

2. boisterous, noisy.

1889		Sporting Life 5 June 1/2: Aspen has jumped from tail-end to second place and is playing a rattling hurrah game of ball [DA].
1895		H. Morant letter in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 28: When I came over here the other day it was to participate in a hurrah spree to finish the bachelor days of the manager here.
1903		N.Y. Eve. Post 30 Oct. 16: Added to this solid element is the hurrah crowd whose enthusiasm has a venal tone [DA].
1909		Univ. Missourian (Columbia, MO) 15 Oct. 4/3: ‘Hoorah Sale’ Is Proving a Big Success.
1927		C.A. Siringo Riata and Spurs 31: One shot hit me in the calf of my left leg, and the scar remains to this day, as a reminder of Wichita’s hurrah days.
1937		(con. 1905–25) E.H. Sutherland Professional Thief (1956) 32: The outside man must be a loud, hurrah type who sends the sucker along to the inside man.
1964		R. Abrahams Deep Down In The Jungle 153: Don’t you come ’round here with that hoorah shit, / Everytime me and my wife get ready to do a little bit.