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Meaning of hoot in English hootnoun [ C ] uk /huːt/ us /huːt/ Add to word list Add to word list a short, loud, high sound: She gave three short hoots on the car horn.hoot of He gave a hoot of laughter/derision. the sound an owl makes Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
  • auditory feedback
  • bang around phrasal verb
  • bleep
  • boop
  • choo-choo
  • chuff
  • clack
  • clap along
  • crunch
  • honk
  • peal
  • resonance
  • rumble
  • soughing
  • spit
  • susurration
  • susurrus
  • thrum
  • thunk
  • ting-a-ling
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Animal (non-human) sounds

Idioms

be a hoot not care/give two hoots hootverb uk /huːt/ us /huːt/ [ I or T ] to make a short loud high sound: hoot your horn at She hooted her horn at the dog in the road.hoot with He hooted with laughter. [ I ] to make the sound that an owl makes Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
  • auditory feedback
  • bang around phrasal verb
  • bleep
  • boop
  • choo-choo
  • chuff
  • clack
  • clap along
  • crunch
  • honk
  • peal
  • resonance
  • rumble
  • soughing
  • spit
  • susurration
  • susurrus
  • thrum
  • thunk
  • ting-a-ling
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Sounds made by humans with their mouths Animal (non-human) sounds (Definition of hoot from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

hoot | American Dictionary

hootnoun [ C ] us /hut/

hoot noun [C] (SOUND)

Add to word list Add to word list the sound an owl (= type of bird) makes, or a shout showing anger or amusement: There were some hoots from the audience at these so-called experts.

hoot noun [C] (AMUSING PERSON/THING)

infml an amusing person or thing: Matt’s a real hoot. hootverb [ I/T ] us /hut/

hoot verb [I/T] (MAKE SOUND)

to make the sound an owl makes, or to shout in anger or amusement: [ I ] He hooted with laughter. (Definition of hoot from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of hoot

hoot They must now pay for their surgical hoots and support bandages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Hooting is either necessary in the interests of public safety or it is not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such an argument would not only be hooted out of every court of law with derision and execration but out of every cricket pavilion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is not a halfpenny over for clothing, hoots, replenishments, etc. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Which document it is written off in does not make two hoots of difference, because the profit or loss goes to the balance sheet anyway. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The council does not give two hoots about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that the drinker of beer or the wearer of hoots will get much advantage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a queue of cars behind him, the drivers of which, needless to say, were all hooting furiously. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some residential areas there are intersecting roads and drivers of this type go at great speed at night hooting at every cross road. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He does not care "two hoots" whether he is taking it out of the programme contractors or out of the advertising industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not care two hoots what the bishops say from that point of view. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that the public care one or two hoots about railway ownership. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were howls of protest and hoots of derision, but it was, and is, a question worth asking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not care two hoots whether there is co-operation with the unions or the employers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He cannot teach our people anything about the making of boots, because we make the best hoots in the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of hoot These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of hoot?

Translations of hoot

in Chinese (Traditional) 短促響亮的聲音, 貓頭鷹的叫聲, 發出短促響亮的聲音… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 短促响亮的声音, 猫头鹰的叫声, 发出短促响亮的声音… See more in Spanish ululato, ulular, tocar la bocina… See more in Portuguese pio, buzinar, piar… See more in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian （フクロウの）ホーという鳴き声, 自動車のクラクションの音, （自動車の）クラクションを鳴らす… See more korna sesi, baykuş sesi, komik/gülünç kimse veya şey… See more klaxonner, mugir, hululer… See more esgarip, toc de botzina, tocar (la botzina)… See more toeteren, claxonneren, huilen… See more (za)troubit, houkat, řehtat se… See more dytte, båtte, hyle… See more mengklakson, melengking, berseru (suara burung hantu)… See more บีบแตร, เป่าหวูด, (นกฮูก) ร้อง… See more bấm còi, rúc còi, (cú) kêu… See more pohukiwanie, klakson, kupa śmiechu… See more tuta, tjuta, hoa… See more membunyikan hon, berbunyi, bersiut… See more hupen, heulen, schreien… See more fløyte, tute, pipe… See more 부엉부엉소리, 경적소리, 경적을 울리다… See more гудіти, сигналити, прогудіти… See more verso del gufo, colpo di clacson, strombazzata… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of hoot

  • hoot with something
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  • give a hoot idiom
  • not care/give a hoot, at not care/give two hoots idiom
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      • hoot (SOUND)
      • hoot (AMUSING PERSON/THING)
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      • hoot (MAKE SOUND)
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