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1. vi., To fall, as through the air; to tumble.

• Examples:
  • ʻŌpū nui kewekewe, pā i ka lani, kōheoheo! (children's song ridiculing a fat stomach), big rounded belly, touch the sky and tumble down.
  • Lele kōheoheo i ka pali o Kapaʻa-heo, tumbling from the cliff of Ka-paʻa-heo [a “goner,” play on heo, gone].

2. nvs., Poisonous.

• Examples:
  • He ʻapu ʻauhuhu kōheoheo, a poisonous concoction of ʻauhuhu; figuratively, a poisonous-natured person.

3. n., Coattail.

4. n., Stick or buoy that floats a fishhook.

5. Reduplication of kōheo.

6. n., Nose flute (hano is more common).

1. s., A mixture containing a deadly poison; he mea awaawa e make ai.

2. A medicine of the sorcerer to kill with.

adj., Deadly; causing death, as a deadly poisonous drug; apu koheoheo, the poisonous cup, the contents of which were made up of several poisonous ingredients, designed for self-murder or for the execution of criminals by the order of a chief, the person presenting the cup saying, he wahi mea ola ia.

1. s., A kind of play among children, as swinging a rope to be jumped over.

2. Name of a certain stick or buoy to float a fish-hook.

3. An instrument to assist in mourning or wailing along with other sounds; he mea kanikani pihe me ka uwalaau.

adj., The epithet of a frock coat, not a jacket, not a dress coat; he lole koheoheo.

adj., Deadly; poisonous: apu koheoheo, the poisonous cup, the contents of which were made up of several posonous ingredients, designed for suicide or for the execution of criminals by the order of a chief, the person presenting the cup saying, "He wahi mea ola ia."

adj., Describing a frock coat as distinguished from a jacket or dress coat: he lole koheoheo.

1. n., A mixture containing a deadly poison: he mea awaawa e make ai.

2. n., Deadly medicine of a sorcerer.

3. n., A kind of play among children, as swinging a rope to be jumped over.

4. n., A certain stick or buoy which floats a fishhook.

5. n., A tubular wind musical instrument with three holes supplied with wind through the nostrils.