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hooter

/hoo-ter/US // ˈhu tər //UK // (ˈhuːtə) //

叫卖声,叫嚣,叫卖者,叫嚣声

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that hoots: Some nights it's hard to sleep because those nesting owls are such noisy hooters.
    • : hooters, Slang: Vulgar. a woman’s breasts.
    • : British. a car horn, siren, or loud whistle.
    • : British Slang. the nose.

Examples

  • It's a hooter you'd only be delighted with if you were a snowman.

  • One of our aeroplanes sounded its hooter and dropped a message about 600 yards away.

  • They wandered on, hoping he would sound the hooter and so give them some clue to his whereabouts, but everything was deadly still.

  • It is easy enough to make people obey a bugle (or a factory hooter) as the Prussian soldiers obey a bugle.

  • Emily entered the room and Captain Obed began philosophically concerning the storm, which he declared was "liable to be a hooter."

  • And there was Billy, with his birch-bark hooter, forty yards below us—he could see the moose perfectly.