transcription, транскрипция: [ hu:t ]
( hoots, hooting, hooted)
1.
If you hoot the horn on a vehicle or if it hoots , it makes a loud noise on one note. ( mainly BRIT )
I never hoot my horn when I pick a girl up for a date...
Somewhere in the distance a siren hooted...
I can be very rude to motorists who hoot at me...
VERB : V n , V , V at n
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Hoot is also a noun. ( in AM, usually use honk , toot )
Mortlake strode on, ignoring the car, in spite of a further warning hoot.
N-COUNT
2.
If you hoot , you make a loud high-pitched noise when you are laughing or showing disapproval.
The protesters chanted, blew whistles and hooted at the name of Governor Pete Wilson...
VERB : V
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Hoot is also a noun.
His confession was greeted with derisive hoots...
N-COUNT : usu with supp
3.
When an owl hoots , it makes a sound like a long ‘oo’.
Out in the garden an owl hooted suddenly.
VERB : V
4.
If you say that you don’t give a hoot or don’t care two hoots about something, you are emphasizing that you do not care at all about it. ( INFORMAL )
Alan doesn’t care two hoots about Irish politics...
PHRASE : V inflects , oft PHR about/for n , PHR wh [ emphasis ]