Dictionary Definition
sally
Noun
2 a military action in which besieged troops
burst forth from their position [syn: sortie]
3 a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into
the wide world beyond his home" [syn: sallying
forth] [also: sallied]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- /'sæl.i/, /"s
Extensive Definition
Sally might mean any of the
following:
Objects
Names
- As a masculine name, chiefly in Italian, a nickname for someone named Salvatore
Slang
- The Salvation Army
- An effeminate boy or man
- Codename used for a modified 6502 used by Atari for a game console and home computers
- The South Atlantic League, a minor league baseball league in the United States
Fiction
- Sally, a detective novel by E.V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast)
- Sally (Asimov), a short story by Isaac Asimov
- Sally (The Nightmare Before Christmas), a character in The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Princess Sally Acorn, a character from the American Sonic the Hedgehog comic book
- Sally Brown, Charlie Brown's little sister
- Sally Carrera, a Porsche 911 Carrera in Cars by Pixar
- "Sally", a poem by Patti Smith from her book Seventh Heaven
Music
- Sally (musical), a theater musical
- A song by Gracie Fields
- A song by Sade
- A song by Mike Oldfield on his Platinum album
Band
- sally (band), an indie-rock band from Chicago, Illinois
- I Hate Sally, indie punk band from Kingston, Ontario
- Subway to Sally, a German folk/medieval rock band from Potsdam
Television
- A talk show hosted by Sally Jessy Raphaël
- Sally (Flight of the Conchords), the pilot episode of the TV series Flight of the Conchords
Businesses
- Sally Corporation, a manufacturer of dark rides and audio-animatronics
- Sally Line, an Ålandian passenger shipping company and cruise line
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
access, aggravated assault,
aggression,
amphibious attack, aphorism, apothegm, arise, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, bail out, banzai attack,
be off, blitz, blitzkrieg, bon mot, boutade, break cover, break
forth, breakthrough, bright idea,
bright thought, brilliant idea, burst, burst forth, campaign, charge, circuit, come, come forth, come out,
conceit, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup
de main, course, crack, crippling attack, dead set
at, debouch, descent on,
disembogue, diversion, diversionary
attack, drive, drollery, effuse, emanate, emerge, epigram, erupt, eruption, excursion, expedition, explosion, extrude, facetiae, flank attack,
flare-up, flash of wit, flight of wit, frontal attack, gag, gas attack, get off, gibe, go forth, grand tour,
gust, happy thought,
head-on attack, infiltration, issue, issue forth, jape, jaunt, jest, journey, jump out, junket, lightning attack,
lightning war, mass attack, megadeath, mot, mugging, nasty crack, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, outing, outset, outstart, overkill, package tour, panzer
warfare, peregrination, persiflage, pilgrimage, play of wit,
pleasantry, pleasure
trip, progress,
protrude, push, put forth, quip, quips and cranks, repartee, retort, riposte, round trip, roundabout, rubberneck tour,
run, run against, run at,
rush, safari, sally forth, scintillation, set forth,
set forward, set off, set out, shock tactics, shoot, smart crack, smart saying,
snappy comeback, sortie,
stalk, start, start off, start out,
strike, strike out,
stroke of wit, surface,
tour, trek, trip, turn, turn of thought, unprovoked
assault, voyage, waggery, wisecrack, witticism