单词 | heckle |
释义 | heckle (once / 5937 pages) 1v 2vn To heckle is to challenge or harass someone. At a sporting event, fans sometimes heckle the opposing team, but it’s not very respectable behavior. One of the many challenges of being a stand-up comedian is dealing with people harassing you from the audience. Those people are heckling. While heckling in a comedy club is not all that unusual, it’s still rude. If you choose to heckle someone, whether they are a comic or anyone else, be prepared to be heckled back — or worse. WORD FAMILYheckle: heckled, heckler, heckles, heckling+/heckler: hecklers/heckling: hecklings USAGE EXAMPLESSpencer was hissed and heckled throughout, evidently relishing the dissent as an opportunity to mock and taunt his critics. The Guardian(Dec 07, 2016) Among the crowd pleasers, he heckled the “crooked media,” prompting boos from the audience, and reiterated his pledge to criminalize flag burning. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) Video of the incident surfaced after Howard boasted to the media about how he doesn’t allow the heckles of Laker fans to bother him. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) 1 v challenge aggressively 2Hyper break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt make a break in 1v comb with a heckle heckle hemp or flax Syn|Hyper hackle, hatchel comb straighten with a comb 2n a comb for separating flax fibers Syn|Hyper hatchel comb any of several tools for straightening fibers |
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