hoot
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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
"But the kid inside of you wants to break out and just hoot and holler."
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
His singing of Oscar Straus and Leo Robin’s “Oh, That Mitzi” is a hoot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
As Dorothy pleads for the Wizard not to fly away without her, we’re distracted by hundreds of waving extras who visibly don’t give a hoot what happens to the girl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
The reply was only another desperate hoot blurted out into the night.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
In the years since, Glenn said he had spotted various signs of Bigfoot, through unidentified faeces, hoots and animal remains torn apart in ways which would require extreme strength.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 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
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
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
“I am glad the hoots will still do.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
Over the next two hours, the audience snapped their fingers, applauded, hooted in approval or nodded as speakers poured out their proverbial hearts in English, Spanish and Nahuatl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
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
An owl hooted somewhere as he stripped off, and he thought with a pang of Hedwig.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
The 20-something fan seated next to me felt the same way about Araki, hooting so much for his favorite filmmaker that he apologized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 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
Millions of folks sat down with Williams every day for more than 14 years, hooting and hissing as she spilled the tea as if she were in their living rooms with them.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
A throng of people came by hooting and hollering as they rushed outside to bowl.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
