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Heckling   Listen
noun
heckling  n.  Shouting in order to interrupt a speech with which the shouter disagrees.
Synonyms: barracking.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Heckling" Quotes from Famous Books



... snapped. "What tomfoolery is this? Do you think you are a police officer heckling a crook? And why should you ask me such a question any more than ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti

... little under this rigorous heckling. "As I have already told you, Mrs. Vavasour, I am alone," she said. "Indeed, I have come here to—to do ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... is not family heckling it may be that even more insidious trial, the third degree. This is usually inflicted by semi-relatives and neighbors. The formulae are something ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley

... lancet stuck into a bladder came the heckling. Denson, that indolent, liberal-minded sceptic, did most of the questioning. He lay contorted in a chair, with his ugly head very low, his legs crossed and his left boot very high, and he pointed his remarks with a long thin hand and occasionally adjusted the unstable glasses that hid his ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells



Words linked to "Heckling" :   break, gap, interruption, heckle



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