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heckler's veto

heckler's veto noun: limiting an individual's free expression by heckle.

Noun

heckler's veto

  1. Limiting an individual's free expression by heckle.
    • They kept sending the emails to the university chancellor and others, hoping to implement the heckler’s veto. They tried to be as annoying as possible to the university so that the officials would get so tired of the emails that they would silence me just to make them stop.2017, Jeffrey Beall, "What I learned from predatory publishers" in Biochemia Medica (vol 27, no 2), Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Questions about heckler's veto

What does heckler's veto mean?
Heckler's veto means limiting an individual's free expression by heckle.
What part of speech is heckler's veto?
Heckler's veto is a noun.

Words near heckler's veto in the dictionary

  1. Heckington
  2. hecklable
  3. heckle
  4. heckled
  5. heckler
  6. heckler's veto
  7. hecklers
  8. heckles
  9. heckling
  10. hecklings
  11. Heckman

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