Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to tease, to harass.

1905		J.W. Carr ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:i 83: hoorah, v. To tease. ‘Don’t you let ’em hoorah you.’.
1974		R.D. Abrahams ‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 261: Hoorawing, an active contest of wits in which everyong [sic] may join, is the most volatile of all the categories for ways of speaking. It is known by a number of terms even within the same community. Hoorawing or talking hooraw shit seem to be the oldest terms here according to my older informants.

2. to cause a commotion, to raise a ruckus.

1872		Wkly Kansas Chief (Troy, KS) 26 Dec. 1/6: We are the only hurrahing people — the only brood hatched in a ‘Hurrah’s nest’.
1878		letter 10 Oct. in T. Hughes Gone To Texas (1884) 14: He tells me about the time they were ‘fighting and hoorawing and fussing about here,’ meaning the war between North and South.
1880		Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 5 May 3/4: It was a tellinng hit [...] you might have heard the hayrooing a couple of streets off.