hissing
hi sing
- n a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience - v make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
- v move with a whooshing sound
- v express or utter with a hiss
- v show displeasure, as after a performance or speech
- Once you activate the self-test, it starts hissing and clicking, checking both the relative volume levels of each speaker, and the distances of each speaker to you and your mic.
- This time of year, Yellowstone is a land of dramatic fire-and-ice contrasts, with hissing, boiling water heated in chambers far below shooting out clouds of steam over a subzero .
- The musical season now closing has witnessed at least one singular noveltyhissing.