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Most voters don’t give a hoot about which candidate is more of a socialist or a moderate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

While throwing, the chimpanzees pant hoot — a loud, long-distance communicative signal — and sometimes repeatedly hit their hands and feet on the tree in a behavior called buttress drumming.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Former talk-show host Winfrey wrote that one of her fondest memories with Parton was "having a hoot and a holler while wearing Bob Mackie gowns on her show Dolly".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

"But the kid inside of you wants to break out and just hoot and holler."

From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026

Students hoot and holler when one of their own—their drama teacher or a fellow student—is called forward or even just when the name of their school is mentioned.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

The depictions of Ruth’s uptight and stingy brother Hyacinth and jealous and mother-in-law from hell “old Mrs. Hall” are both hoots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

But us football fans must recognize that not everyone hoots and hollers for the conversion on a long third down or a legendary pick six.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025

"Mainly that she really does not care two hoots what anybody thinks. Never did, never will, and I love that about her," she said.

From BBC ● May 28, 2024

All week I’d reveled in the cackles of leaf monkeys, hoots of gibbons, and barks of macaques, plus choruses of birds and frogs—all backed by the hums and whines of insects.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

She mostly stayed home because she said the whole town was a slum and she didn’t give two hoots about it.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

A barred owl hooted and shook its feathers in a sycamore above the creek, and red-bellied cooters sunned themselves on half-submerged logs.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

While the rest of the class hooted and hollered, I watched your expressions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

The crowd in New Hampshire cheered wildly as Trump came onstage and hooted warmly at some of his standard campaign lines.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

The viewers clapped when Chris Tucker appeared onscreen, and they hooted for Viola Davis.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

People hooted and hollered as they walked away, but Lily didn’t let go until they were in the parking lot.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

We’re hooting and hollering because Texas is now represented in the Senate by a guy who sounds like Mr. Burns when he gets too many medical treatments and keeps offering everyone his love.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

Pant hooting and buttress drumming are both part of the male chimpanzee display, suggesting that accumulative stone throwing might represent a modification of this common behavior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

A crowd came out waving blue and yellow national flags, cheering as the buses carrying the freed men passed hooting their horns.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

But who would watch a show about Charlotte and Harry, and LTW and Herbert, living and loving and occasionally hooting in support of their friend’s corny a cappella outfit?

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

This afternoon, a block from school, a gang of kids were yelling and hooting near a stop sign.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli