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hoot
1[ hoot ]
verb (used without object)
- to cry out or shout, especially in disapproval or derision.
Synonyms: , ,
- to utter the cry characteristic of an owl.
- to utter a similar sound.
- Chiefly British. to blow a horn or whistle; toot.
verb (used with object)
- to assail with shouts of disapproval or derision:
The fans hooted the umpire.
Synonyms: ,
- to drive out, off, or away by hooting.
- to express in hoots:
The crowd hooted its disagreement with the speaker.
noun
- the cry of an owl.
- any similar sound, as an inarticulate shout.
- a cry or shout, especially of disapproval or derision.
- British. a horn, siren, or whistle, especially a factory whistle.
- Informal. the least bit of concern, interest, or thought; trifle:
His religion doesn't matter a hoot to me.
- Slang. an extremely funny person, situation, or event:
Your cousin is such a hoot!
hoot
2[ hoot ]
interjection
- (used as an expression of impatience, dissatisfaction, objection, or dislike.)
hoot
1/ ː /
noun
- the mournful wavering cry of some owls
- a similar sound, such as that of a train whistle
- a jeer of derision
- informal.an amusing person or thing
the weekend was a hoot
- not give a hootnot to care at all
verb
- often foll by at to jeer or yell (something) contemptuously (at someone)
- tr to drive (political speakers, actors on stage, etc) off or away by hooting
- intr to make a hoot
- intr to blow a horn
hoot
2/ ːs; ː /
interjection
- an exclamation of impatience or dissatisfaction: a supposed Scotticism
hoot
3/ ː /
noun
- a slang word for money
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Idioms and Phrases
- not give / care a hoot, Informal. to not care at all: not givecare two hoots.
I don't give a hoot.
More idioms and phrases containing hoot
see not give a damn (hoot) .Example Sentences
What should be a nasty hoot, however, is closer to a ho-hum.
“The owls are hooting. They’re answering,” he said several days after his supervisor delivered the gut punch over Valentine’s Day weekend.
But then, only five days later, they set a baited trap in the Sheep Meadow and tried to lure in Flaco using a recording of a hooting female owl.
And what a hoot that as Ola zooms away, he pops a cap in Oosterveen as a gesture of goodbye.
None of us came from any money, but it was a hoot.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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