hooter

[ hoo-ter ]

noun
  1. a person or thing that hoots: Some nights it's hard to sleep because those nesting owls are such noisy hooters.

  2. hooters, Slang: Vulgar. a woman’s breasts.

  1. British. a car horn, siren, or loud whistle.

  2. British Slang. the nose.

Origin of hooter

1
First recorded in 1665–75; hoot1 + -er1

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How to use hooter in a sentence

  • And there was Billy, with his birch-bark hooter, forty yards below us—he could see the moose perfectly.

    Days Off | Henry Van Dyke

British Dictionary definitions for hooter

hooter

/ (ˈhuːtə) /


nounmainly British
  1. a person or thing that hoots, esp a car horn

  2. slang a nose

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