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
- : 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.
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