hoot
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While throwing, the chimpanzees pant hoot — a loud, long-distance communicative signal — and sometimes repeatedly hit their hands and feet on the tree in a behavior called buttress drumming.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Former talk-show host Winfrey wrote that one of her fondest memories with Parton was "having a hoot and a holler while wearing Bob Mackie gowns on her show Dolly".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
His singing of Oscar Straus and Leo Robin’s “Oh, That Mitzi” is a hoot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Crowds hoot and cheer as the contraptions float into the darkening sky, while referees judge the magnificence of their aerial explosions.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025
There was a hoot of snarling horns and a babel of baying voices.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
The depictions of Ruth’s uptight and stingy brother Hyacinth and jealous and mother-in-law from hell “old Mrs. Hall” are both hoots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
But us football fans must recognize that not everyone hoots and hollers for the conversion on a long third down or a legendary pick six.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025
Mr Watling told BBC Essex that Mr Farage "doesn't give two hoots" about the constituency, which also includes the seaside towns of Frinton and Walton, and villages inland including St Osyth, Tendring and Wix.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
All week I’d reveled in the cackles of leaf monkeys, hoots of gibbons, and barks of macaques, plus choruses of birds and frogs—all backed by the hums and whines of insects.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
“You are amazing,” John Mark hoots at Mom as she wipes her hands on a rag.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
A barred owl hooted and shook its feathers in a sycamore above the creek, and red-bellied cooters sunned themselves on half-submerged logs.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026
Asked for their full names, they hooted raucously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Every time they hooted or interrupted, he gave as good as he got, mocking their points and challenging them to pass important legislation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
A speeding motorist hooted frantically to warn traders on the sides of the road to move away.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
Father hooted with laughter and puffed out his chest with pride.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
Pant hooting and buttress drumming are both part of the male chimpanzee display, suggesting that accumulative stone throwing might represent a modification of this common behavior.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
But then, only five days later, they set a baited trap in the Sheep Meadow and tried to lure in Flaco using a recording of a hooting female owl.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025
The owl spent his days perched on tree branches, fence posts and fire escapes and nights hooting atop water towers and preying on the city’s abundant rats.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
For one day a year the hustle and bustle of London's Whitehall - gawking tourists, chanting protestors and hooting taxis - is swept away and in its place a very different slice of Britain descends.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2023
Even the wolves found this conversation interesting, as you might well imagine, but the discussion was cut short by a hooting, unnatural sound, coming from a far distance.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
