hooning

Verb (1)

hoon (third-person singular simple present hoons, present participle hooning, simple past and past participle hooned)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, especially) To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
   • […] you've hooned off – it's fair to say hooned off – at quite a high speed.2003, Western Australian Reports: Authorized Law Reports of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, volume 28, Sydney: Published for the Council of Law Reporting of Western Australia by Butterworths...

   Synonyms:

   hoon it

Verb (2)

hoon (third-person singular simple present hoons, present participle hooning, simple past and past participle hooned)

1. To make a hooting or howling sound.
   • All this time, every night, and sometimes most of each night, the hooning whistling of the Room was intolerable. It was as if an intelligence there knew that steps were being taken against it, and piped and hooned in a sort of mad, mocking contempt.1910, William Hope Hodgson, “The Whistling Room”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 34617117, page 606; republished in Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, London...

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