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heckle
/ ˈɛə /
verb
to interrupt (a public speaker, performer, etc) by comments, questions, or taunts
Also: hackle. hatchel.(tr) to comb (hemp or flax)
noun
an instrument for combing flax or hemp
Other Word Forms
- heckler noun
- ˈ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of heckle1
Example Sentences
The World War II veterans heckled them: “Why don’t you go to Hanoi?”
"Why should it? For doing my job?" she retorts, her heckles immediately raised at any suggestion of a conflict of interest.
And as she arrived at the building, his side heckled her by shouting: "Why are you lying on that boy?"
Passersby who witnessed this altercation began to heckle the police, demanding they take the handcuffs off Smith.
Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown was heckled on Friday as he formally welcomed crowds to a service marking Anzac Day, a national day of remembrance for military servicemen and servicewomen.
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