heckle

Some blame the rising price of tickets, saying theatergoers feel entitled to misbehave in the same way sports fans feel the price of admission buys them the right to heckle players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Passersby who witnessed this altercation began to heckle the police, demanding they take the handcuffs off Smith.

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

Arizona and Arizona State fans once used the term to heckle him, but the taunts had the opposite of their intended effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

The prime minister received another, less-hostile, heckle when a member of the crowd shouted out: "Prime minister, it's not Coca-Cola."

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2023

“But what if I want to heckle Nick?”

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

"Why should it? For doing my job?" she retorts, her heckles immediately raised at any suggestion of a conflict of interest.

From BBC ● May 30, 2025

“Your job as a bench warmer is to come up with the heckles against the other team. I took pride in writing insults to hurl at other 15-year-olds,” Wood recalled in a recent Zoom interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024

Of course, hecklers could submit their heckles via email or interview but not heckle directly at our duly elected president.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

The reason, he said, is that he would expect an order from a group that cheers for the visitor and heckles the home team would be rejected.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

He heckles down the echoing curb, A step that neither hopes nor hates Ever disturb.

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo's further shift away from its decades-long pacifist stance, television footage showed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

A woman heckled the mayor just as he was about to speak and accused city leadership of ignoring concerns of Muslim and Palestinian communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

While the Met Police chief spoke, he was heckled by bystanders, who shouted "shame on you" and "you've failed", and called for his resignation.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

On Tuesday its students disrupted, heckled and tried to shout down a speech by Homeland Security general counsel James Percival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Ducks heckled the swan, but a swan only notices what it wishes to.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Since the fall, Charles has faced heckling about his brother during public appearances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

“These people are crazy, I’m telling you. We’re lucky we have a country with people like this,” he said, over audible heckling about the Epstein files.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

One federal agent saw the patrollers, turned up his music, and began heckling the group as he rode in.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

Sharma says heckling of women for their clothing is unheard of in Rishikesh, a city in the Himalayan foothills on the banks of Ganges river.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

We haul it down the driveway and around the corner as the old man’s heckling laugh echoes behind us.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy