hurrah grass n chiefly TX, AR, AL, GA
Any of several grasses that are often troublesome weeds, usu Texas millet n, the closely related Urochloa fusca, or a bullgrass n 1; see quots.
1880 Daily AR Gaz. (Little Rock) 3 Jan 8/2, “Hurrah grass” is taking possession of a great many fine farms of the Arkansas river bottoms. 1881 Columbus Daily Enquirer–Sun (GA) 14 Sept [4]/3, All the reports that we could get were unfavorable, except that of brother Acee Lowe. He seems to rejoice that he has made a good crop of hurrah grass, that he was making into hay. 1898 U.S. Dept. Ag. Div. Agrostology Bulletin 10.18 cTX, Hurrah Grass (Panicum reticulatum [=Urochloa fusca]) occurs only in cultivated fields or along the roadsides. It is not well known either among the stockmen or farmers. 1901 Waco Times–Herald (TX) 8 June 4/3, The farmers here are sitting under the clouds watching the “hurrah grass” wrastle with the cotton. 1918 KS Acad. Sci. Trans. 28.311 cnTX, Aphis . . setariæ . . . September, on goose grass (Eleusine indica), hurrah grass (Panicum texana [= Urochloa texana]), finger grass, and two other kinds of grasses undetermined. 1920 Atlanta Tri-Weekly Jrl. (GA) 10 Apr 7/3, In the cultivated bottom lands Hurrah grass (Pas[palum] Boscianum), sometimes called Bull grass, Cherokee grass and Crowfoot gives sumger [sic] grazing, but will not last in a pasture. 1923 U.S. Bur. Soils Field Operations 19.704 nwAL, A small proportion [of the hay crop] consists of crab grass and “hurrah” grass, which grow wild. [Footnote to hurrah grass:] Probably Eleusine indica. 1939 Tharp Vegetation TX 45, Hurrah grass (Paspalum spp.); in general tends to flourish in low, moist situations. 1942 Anniston Star (AL) 10 May 10/7, We have heard a number of farmers state that they would probably sow their soybeans for hay this year. . .This will work fairly satisfactory except in fields where there is much “hurrah” grass, cockle burs, coffee weeds or other undesirable weeds. 1951 PADS 15.8 TX, Panicum fasciculatum Swartz [=Urochloa fusca].—Hurrah grass, central Texas. . . Digitaria sanguinalis L.—Hurrah grass, western Texas. 1966 DARE (Qu. S9, . . Kinds of grass that are hard to get rid of) Inf AL2, Hurrah grass. 1972 Sumter Daily Item (SC) 23 May 7/3, MSMA + surfactant + norea (Herban)—johnsongrass, goosegrass, nutgrass (Coco), Coloradograss (hurrah grass), barnyardgrass (watergrass), [etc]. 2011 in 2026 DARE File—Internet, Casoron 4G may be used for control of annual grassy and broadleaved plants and certain biennial weeds such as: . . Texas Panicum (Hurrah grass).