catcall

“Every time I would skate, people would catcall us or yell at us to do a kickflip,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

Tuberville smiles at what amounts to an Alabama catcall, but he doesn’t engage.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2020

Men catcall her on the street; she breaks down, in one instance, and screams.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 11, 2019

While I usually give catcallers a piece of my mind, this didn’t feel like a normal catcall and it just didn’t feel appropriate to go off on him.

From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2018

These were cynical times, but no one risked a catcall.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

They are also trying to create a more welcoming work environment while cracking down on off-color jokes and catcalls on male-dominated jobsites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Husted is far from the only man Trump ever catcalls.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

But now she says she simply lets it out: "If someone catcalls me in the street, I rage. I don't care."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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

More jeering, whistling, catcalls, and scattered boos accompanied this unsportsmanlike conduct.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

That’s because unlike her experience with men, a bear has never harassed her, catcalled her, followed her, thrown a bottle at her or otherwise made her feel unsafe.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024

I don't think the show has a goal of getting people excited about being catcalled as we know how frustrating, annoying and dangerous that could be.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2023

In Memphis on Saturday, protesters chanting, "Whose streets? Our streets!" angrily catcalled a police car that was monitoring the march, with several making obscene gestures.

From Reuters ● Jan. 28, 2023

"I have never been catcalled, but my friends have been and it isn't very nice," he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2018

They whined it, they catcalled it, they shrieked it in falsetto imitation of Clarence's mother.

From Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

Supt Beth Pagnillo, who herself has experienced catcalling while out running, is leading the police response.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2024

Britain’s government said Friday that it was backing legislation to criminalize public sexual harassment, joining a handful of countries that have made specific offenses such as catcalling punishable by law.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

The CPS recently updated its advice to staff about street harassment such as catcalling.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

Children screaming at the nearby playground, teens catcalling, a heated family argument — all of it is drowned out by the dulcet tones of a song called “Akal” by White Sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

“Brocklehurst, Mandy” went to Ravenclaw too, but “Brown, Lavender” became the first new Gryffindor, and the table on the far left exploded with cheers; Harry could see Ron’s twin brothers catcalling.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling