Cry-havoc Definition
verb
1608, Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt— Shakespeare, Coriolanus.
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Origin of Cry-havoc
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From the Anglo-Norman phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”).
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