transcription, транскрипция: [ hek(ə)l ]
( heckles, heckling, heckled)
If people in an audience heckle public speakers or performers, they interrupt them, for example by making rude remarks.
They heckled him and interrupted his address with angry questions...
A small group of youths stayed behind to heckle and shout abuse.
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Heckle is also a noun.
The offending comment was in fact a heckle from an audience member.
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• heck‧ling
The ceremony was disrupted by unprecedented heckling and slogan-chanting.
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• heck‧ler
(hecklers)
As he began his speech, a heckler called out asking for his opinion on gun control.
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