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Heckle   Listen
verb
Heckle  v. t.  
1.
To interrogate, or ply with questions, esp. with severity or antagonism, as a candidate for the ministry. "Robert bore heckling, however, with great patience and adroitness."
2.
To shout questions or jibes at (a public speaker), so as to disconcert him or render his talk ineffective.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Heckle" Quotes from Famous Books



... a drink," he invited. "I am just up from the House. I do wish you could get some of your military friends to stop worrying us, Norgate. Two hours to-night have been absolutely wasted because they would talk National Service and heckle us about ...
— The Double Traitor • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Heckle" :   comb, heckling, break up, cut off, heckler, interrupt, disrupt, hackle, hatchel



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