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Tarzan yodel en · NOUN

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1. Tarzan yell
   • Johnny Weissmuller not only won all the hog calling contests with his Tarzan yodel, but when the report went around that Johnny had blasted all the pollen from the apple trees into Jimmy Cagney's cow pasture with the result that Jimmy's cows gave nothing but apple butter for weeks and weeks, all future hog callings were called off. 1934 October 14, Photoplay Magazine, Chicago, page 86, column 3:
   • The boy clambers into Turo's arms and lets out a Tarzan yodel. 1989 August 14, Islands: An International Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA, page 67, column 1:
   • For his money, the best person he ever heard do the "Tarzan yodel" was Edgar Rice Burroughs' grandson, Danton. 2004, Bart Plantenga, Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, New York: Routledge, page 300:

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