Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Shouting in order to interrupt a speech with which the shouter disagrees.
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- verb Present participle of
heckle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree
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Examples
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More heckling from the unwashed twits in the village.
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It is GREAT to see this back and forth in Washington again ... if only the GOP would join in more instead of heckling from the sidelines.
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Joe Wilson is not a decent guy who had a lapse of judgement in heckling the President of the United States.
Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say 2009
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I have been the "other": a foreigner in various countries, and a girl in a country where the heckling is called "eve-teasing" and dismissed with a smile.
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The heckling is usually seen in third world countries.
Wilson apologizes again to Obama, says he didn't 'snap' 2009
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Sean Young has entered rehabilitation for alcohol abuse following a weekend outburst in which she was heckling from the audience at the Directors Guild of America awards.
T-T-TODAY, JUNIOR! 2008
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Among the people I shoot skeet and sporting clays with, good natured heckling is an accepted, even encouraged, practice.
Cellular Heckling 2008
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Some men, heckling from the sidelines, insist that excluding men is a form of sexism.
Numbers Trouble : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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After listening to the exchange between Rumsfeld and McGovern I would not call it heckling but for some reason it seems the press is uncomfortable with individual citizens doing the job they seem to squeemish to take on.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD 2006
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When you determine it is time to begin heckling, do not raise your hand in hopes of being called upon.
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