hoot
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"But the kid inside of you wants to break out and just hoot and holler."
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
De Angelis and Waltz are also a hoot together, she as a heaving, hissing vampire bride who can’t stop licking her chops, he as a bone-dry vampire hunter dedicated to his investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Seeing each stride into frame is a hoot.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
But if you keep skating, at some point you’ll meet another woman who skates, and then another, and pretty soon you and your “high vibe tribe” won’t give a hoot what anyone thinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2025
She gave me a startled look like the hoot owl at the Amish farm, then backed off toward a shelf of Beanie Babies.
From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos
So on “SNL,” as Storrie’s monologue winds down, we see the Hughes brothers take the stage to polite applause and a few hoots.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
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
Rod hoots with laughter: "You deserve it, my man. I'm going to give you a round of applause."
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 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
The hoots and yells of the baboon troop didn’t veer off into the trees.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
Before the final snap Saturday morning, with the score tied in a competition between the opposing sides, the defensive players watching from the sideline hopped and hooted in anticipation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
Every time they hooted or interrupted, he gave as good as he got, mocking their points and challenging them to pass important legislation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 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
She leaned back in the chair as she hooted with laughter.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
Parnther, a charismatic figure, has a growing fan base for his conducting, and he elicited hooting and hollering from the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
He has been heard hooting from rooftops and water towers across the Upper West Side, sometimes calling out into the post-midnight darkness for hours to establish his territory and possibly woo a mate.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
From above, through the iron grilles that open onto the streets, he had heard the thrumming of the rubber tires of automobiles, and the hooting of their horns, and the howling of their brakes.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
