hooter
a person or thing that hoots: Some nights it's hard to sleep because those nesting owls are such noisy hooters.
hooters, Slang: Vulgar. a woman’s breasts.
British. a car horn, siren, or loud whistle.
British Slang. the nose.
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How to use hooter in a sentence
It's a hooter you'd only be delighted with if you were a snowman.
Kate's First Official Portrait: Will Artist be Sent To Tower for Hideous Picture? | Tom Sykes | January 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOne of our aeroplanes sounded its hooter and dropped a message about 600 yards away.
Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front | E. W. HornungThey wandered on, hoping he would sound the hooter and so give them some clue to his whereabouts, but everything was deadly still.
A Fortunate Term | Angela BrazilIt is easy enough to make people obey a bugle (or a factory hooter) as the Prussian soldiers obey a bugle.
Lord Kitchener | G. K. ChestertonEmily entered the room and Captain Obed began philosophically concerning the storm, which he declared was "liable to be a hooter."
Thankful's Inheritance | Joseph C. Lincoln
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
/ (ˈhuːtə) /
a person or thing that hoots, esp a car horn
slang a nose
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