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Hooted and heckled on the road in spring training before camp was shut in mid-March, the Astros had no trouble with Seattle.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2020

Hooted the ad: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains�but YOU can't."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hooted and booed by radicals on the hard 25¢ seats, the son of a onetime Army bandmaster retorted: "Music hath charms even for the savage, but not for the ill-mannered."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hooted down, derided, stigmatized, and howled at, it only served to intensify the prejudice with which the author of "Queen Mab" had come to be regarded.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

Hooted by the mob of Naples, and excommunicated by the archbishop’s court, he was forced to leave Naples and repair to Vienna.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various