catcall
noun
a shrill, whistlelike sound or loud raucous shout made to express disapproval at a theater, meeting, etc.
catcalls
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pluralof catcall.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof catcall (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
catcallnouna shrill, whistlelike sound or loud raucous shout made to express disapproval at a theater, meeting, etc.
Example Sentences
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To wit, a man catcalls her as she walks past and she yells, “I object!”
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
The catcalls came after frustrated ticketholders waited for hours in lines that stretched more than two blocks outside Madison Square Garden on Monday due to the intense security restrictions that came with the president's appearance.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Never,” reported one of Paris’s better literary reviews, “has a painting excited so much laughter, mockery, and catcalls as this ‘Olympia.’”
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2023
When the catcalls and chants rain down on Bregman or Altuve, it’s not because Philadelphia has some special, specific venom toward either of them.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
Mixed in with the applause, though, was a spattering of whistles and the stamping of feet, the European equivalents of catcalls and boos.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
