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  • noun Plural form of catcaller.

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Examples

  • You can read here about trips to museums and run-ins with aggressive French catcallers and $11 beers (why couldn't I have gone some place with a favorable exchange rate like my friends who are all in Eastern European former communist countries?).

    Jessica Roy: Welcome to Paris 2008

  • I think that it is wonderful that you talk back to the catcallers.

    Oregon Woman Convicted of Acting Insufficiently Traumatized 2005

  • The audiences' reactions first gained notoriety thanks to a few catcallers who made themselves the story, booing gay soldiers and jeering at people without health insurance.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jason Linkins 2012

  • Hollaback: Curb Catcalls With iPhone App walking down the street and someone throws a lewd comment your way curbside catcallers and lets victims of street harassment report verbal abuse, flashing, groping and other kinds of assaults on the go.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2010

  • Before starting the Twitter account (and before that, a blog on the same subject), Franny had the idea to photograph the catcallers -- turning the lens on them -- but it proved too difficult to be constantly at the ready with a camera.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • So what I'm understanding from most of these posts is that a woman is not just asexual, but a total bitch for not responding to catcallers.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • When this would happen to me, I would pound my chest with my fist and let go a large belch, while seeming to ignore the catcallers. 99% of the time it horrified and quieted the harassment.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • When this would happen to me, I would pound my chest with my fist and let go a large belch, while seeming to ignore the catcallers. 99% of the time it horrified and quieted the harassment.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Before starting the Twitter account (and before that, a blog on the same subject), Franny had the idea to photograph the catcallers -- turning the lens on them -- but it proved too difficult to be constantly at the ready with a camera.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Recently, Franny began asking the catcallers why they said these things to her.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

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