Definition of "yell"

yell¹

/jɛl/

verb
third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled
1. (intransitive) To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
2. (transitive) To convey by shouting.
3. (informal, followed by at) To tell someone off in a loud and angry manner.
noun
plural yells
1. A shout.
2. A phrase to be shouted.
  Quotations
  After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings […]
  1912, The Michigan Alumnus, volume 18, page 152

/jɛl/