hoot
hooht
- n a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
- n a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- n something of little value
- v to utter a loud clamorous shout
the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance - v utter the characteristic sound of owls
- On the naturalistic level, Francis Coppola's film is a botch, a hoot.
- England's eagerest astronauts, the slide-rule devotees of the British Interplanetary Society, hoot at the book's "scientific" label.
- You roll your eyes at the ceiling and hoot like Limbaugh: Ah, the terrors of life in a prosperous, powerful, peacetime society! In a nation rich enough to be morally incoherent and .