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hooting

verb

present participle of hoot
1
as in shouting

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2
as in jeering

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooting
  1. shouting
  2. jeering
  3. hollering
  4. ridiculing
  5. howling
  6. insulting
  7. bellowing
  8. deriding
Verb
  • Someone who tried to silence the voices of people who are shouting about genocide.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Helton’s statue depicts the Hall of Fame first baseman shouting to the sky after catching a relay from shortstop Troy Tulowitzki for the last out of the 2007 NL Championship Series and what remains the Rockies' only World Series appearance.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of shouting
Verb
  • Once a lawyerly panel, a takeover by a trio of conservatives deeply mistrustful of the state’s voting system has turned the board’s once mundane meetings into boisterous events packed with crowds of cheering and jeering activists.
    — Tamar Hallerman, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Those jeering fans quickly had plenty to celebrate, as Austria players surrounded and jumped on their last-gasp goalscorer.
    — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 28 June 2026
Definition of jeering
Verb
  • Perhaps even more notable was his volume at prospect camp practice on Friday, hooting and hollering and firing up his teammates.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The stallion gallops onto the field every time the team scores a touchdown, adding to the reverberating noise of fans hooting and hollering in the stands.
    — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of hollering
Verb
  • In 2012, fury over an anti-Muslim film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad sparked violent clashes across the Muslim world.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The blogger has been on a years-long apology tour after relentlessly ridiculing celebrities in the 2000s.
    — Ethan Beck, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of ridiculing
Verb
  • Late one night in October, 2017, Jane Marx, a landscape architect in the wine country of Northern California, woke up to the smell of smoke and the sound of an eerie, howling wind.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Leithauser was the distinctive, often howling voice of the Walkmen, while Rostam was a songwriter and producer in Vampire Weekend.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of howling
Verb
  • Trump has also lashed out at individual reporters in person or over social media, sometimes in strikingly personal terms -- insulting them in briefings, or in his recent speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Griffin brought up the moment as the cohosts discussed Andy Cohen apologizing for previously insulting Dancing With the Stars performer Julia Stiles, who called the Watch What Happens Live host out on DWTS earlier this week.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of insulting
Verb
  • Kio takes in his new surroundings confidently, strutting through the grasses near his den while working on his roar, that is, until a bellowing elephant sends him racing closer to Mom.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But the voice bellowing through the headset of quarterback Patrick Mahomes provides him an every-single-play reminder of Bieniemy’s absence.
    — Sam McDowell Updated July 30, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
Definition of bellowing
Verb
  • Social media in South Korea have been filled with messages stoking fears about safety on Jeju, with some spreading groundless rumors and deriding the island.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In response, the players went on strike, deriding the proposal as anti-labor.
    — Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of deriding
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“Hooting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooting. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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