Hoot | Mean of hoot in English Dictionary

/ˈhuːt/

• Noun
• the loud, deep sound made by an owl
• a similar loud, deep sound
1. (Brit) the hoot [=honk] of a car's horn
• a loud laugh or call made by a person
1. hoots of laughter
2. The announcement was met with hoots of derision/scorn.

• an amusing person or thing
1. Your father is a hoot.
2. Wasn't that a hoot?
• to care at all about someone or something
1. I don't care a hoot about what they say.
2. I don't give two hoots about his problems.
• Verb
• to make a hoot
1. We could hear an owl hooting in the woods.
• to make a loud sound
1. a hooting horn
• to cause (a horn) to hoot
1. The people in the cars behind us kept hooting [=(US) honking] their horns.
2. I hooted at the car in front of me.
• to call out or laugh loudly
1. The crowd booed and hooted when it was announced that the show was canceled.
2. The crowd hooted its disapproval.
3. The speaker was hooted down by a small group of protesters. [=the protesters loudly shouted at the speaker so that the speaker could not be heard]
4. The speaker was hooted off the platform by a small group of protesters.