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

About 6,000 people jammed the Civic Auditorium to cheer, boo, catcall and heckle.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2020

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

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

He avoided looking at the stands; the laughter was becoming louder, and there were catcalls and jeering from the Slytherins.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

Rant to all of the “fans” who talked loudly, catcalled and screamed throughout the quieter parts of the performance, even after Mellencamp repeatedly asked them to be quiet.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 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

“They were catcalling and whistling, and the crew all started doing versions of the dance. It sparked a lot of joy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025

Female police officers are posing as runners as part of a crackdown on strangers catcalling women out exercising in Bradford.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

A bill introduced by Tunbridge Wells MP Greg Clark will see wolf-whistling, catcalling and staring persistently become an offence in England.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2022

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

“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