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  • noun Plural form of booer.

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Examples

  • Maybe the 'booers' got elbowed in the ribs a few times and thought better of it.

    Hillary's Concession Speech Will Kick Off Battle For Her Supporters 2009

  • Most people applauded but there were also boos from near where I sat in the balcony, followed by an angry debate in the row in front of me, with one of the booers declaring "he's an evil man" and a couple next to her telling her to "shut up" and to leave the theatre.

    Brooklyn Audience Boos Tea Party Billionaire David Koch thinkprogress.org 2011

  • Most people applauded but there were also boos from near where I sat in the balcony, followed by an angry debate in the row in front of me, with one of the booers declaring "he's an evil man" and a couple next to her telling her to "shut up" and to leave the theatre.

    Brooklyn Audience Boos Tea Party Billionaire David Koch thinkprogress.org 2011

  • Most people applauded but there were also boos from near where I sat in the balcony, followed by an angry debate in the row in front of me, with one of the booers declaring "he's an evil man" and a couple next to her telling her to "shut up" and to leave the theatre.

    Brooklyn Audience Boos Tea Party Billionaire David Koch thinkprogress.org 2011

  • Gapper writes: ... there were also boos from near where I sat in the balcony, followed by an angry debate in the row in front of me, with one of the booers declaring “he’s an evil man” and a couple next to her telling her to “shut up” and to leave the theatre.

    Kert Davies: David Koch Booed at NY Christmas Ballet Performance Kert Davies 2011

  • Most people applauded but there were also boos from near where I sat in the balcony, followed by an angry debate in the row in front of me, with one of the booers declaring "he's an evil man" and a couple next to her telling her to "shut up" and to leave the theatre.

    Brooklyn Audience Boos Tea Party Billionaire David Koch thinkprogress.org 2011

  • This season's opener, a new Don Giovanni with a deluxe cast including the Russian superstar Anna Netrebko in her house debut, Bryn Terfel as the Don's sidekick Leporello, and Daniel Barenboim in his inaugural season as music director, offered the ultimate truffleYet protesters and booers, with isolated exceptions, stayed away.

    A tale of two Italian opera cities 2011

  • In the Republican tradition, the Clinton people said the booers were all union troublemakers.

    Polls: Revote Battle May Have Hurt Obama In Florida, But Not Michigan 2009

  • By definition few of the veterans would be still capable of giving the booers a good clip over the ear but I bet many would have liked to.

    BROWN BOOED ON OBAMA BEACH... 2009

  • Not everybody did it, but the booers were enough to make themselves heard.

    Venezuela: Kusturica's Visit Becomes Political 2008

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