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  • verb Present participle of hoot.
  • noun The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound

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Examples

  • Tonight they just seem to be interested in hooting and screaming at us, without even making the slightest attempt to provide support for anything.

    Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010

  • Last year, when she had just turned two, it was a delightful but slightly baffling exercise in hooting at lights and puzzling over gifts (why there toy here Mama WHY?) and recoiling in terror from shopping mall Santas.

    What Would Linus Do? | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • She pretends to all the wisdom; whereas, your reverences, the crows, are endowed with gifts far superior to these benighted old big-wigs of owls, who blink in the darkness, and call their hooting singing.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • She pretends to all the wisdom; whereas, your reverences, the crows, are endowed with gifts far superior to these benighted old big-wigs of owls, who blink in the darkness, and call their hooting singing.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Arab or Touarghee, with me, a sort of physical-force argument against this moral hooting, which is intelligible everywhere, and more especially in The Desert.

    Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

  • COOPER: As a supporter, though, of John McCain, do you worry that when compared to Barack Obama, just in public events -- I mean having him stand in front of this green backdrop, no people behind him, a relatively small crowd, occasionally people kind of hooting and hollering.

    CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2008 2008

  • The small crowd that is assembled outside the church here applauding and kind of hooting and hollering as the ambulance went by.

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006 2006

  • JUDGE CHARLES BURTON, PALM BEACH COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD: ... there's a couple of problems where we had agreed to allow each party more observers than we probably should have, because there's too much commotion running around, and it was getting late into the night, and I know one fellow dropped some ballots, and everybody was kind of hooting and hollering at him.

    CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Florida Supreme Court Stays Certification of Florida Presidential Ballots; Counties Counting Overseas Absentee Ballots - November 17, 2000 2000

  • And there's a couple of problems where we had agreed to allow each party more observers than we probably should have, because there's too much commotion running around, and it was getting late into the night, and I know one fellow dropped some ballots, and everybody was kind of hooting and hollering at him.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Gains Two Votes from Palm Beach Hand Count - November 17, 2000 2000

  • According to witnesses, the van's driver was "hooting" and "cat-calling" at Ysemny Ramos, the 29-year-old.

    Gothamist 2009

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