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heckle

/hek-uhl/US // ˈhɛk əl //UK // (ˈhɛkəl) //

嘲笑,起哄,取笑,起哄声

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    heck·led, heck·ling.

    • : to harass with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
    • : hackle.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : hackle.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbjeer
Forms: heckling

Examples

  • Known on stage for his confrontational style, Gelman heckles the audience as much as they heckle him.

  • We go to the ball park, we heckle a pitcher who throws one bad pitch.

  • Banners were waved and speakers were both cheered and jeered—opponents commonly turned up to heckle.

  • A group of anti-monarchy protestors gathered in Montreal to heckle the young royals, holding up signs reading “Royal Parasites.”

  • Please torment, harass, vex, heckle, and badger those two blockheads until they honor their commitments to my defense fund.

  • Upon an oblong plank a b, two circular or square blocks of wood c and d are fixed, in which the heckle teeth stand upright.

  • Whenever one half of the length of the strake of flax is heckled, it is turned round to heckle the other half.

  • It is next to be beaten, and passed once or twice over an ordinary heckle or stiff brush.

  • They set aside all thought of assisting their hapless brothers and sisters, while they heckle their unfortunate governors.

  • Heckling is combing it with a heckle or wooden comb; binnings are halters for cattle made of sprit or rushes.