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hooters

hooters is the plural of hooter.

Meaning of hooter

Noun

hooter (plural hooters)

  1. A person who hoots.
  2. The horn in a motor vehicle.
  3. (UK) A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift.
    • Suddenly, far down and beyond the toun there came a screech as the morning grew, a screech like an hungered beast in pain. The hooters were blowing in the Segget Mills.1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, page 34
  4. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
    • Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose. He can't help having a hideous great hooter! And his poor little head, trembling under the weight of it!1964, A Hard Day's Night, spoken by Grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell)
  5. An owl.
  6. (US, especially, plural-normally, slang) A woman's breast.

See all 9 meanings of hooter

Noun

hooters pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) A woman's breasts.
    • As you'd expect, “Hooters” has a farcical structure and an endless supply of gags about pick-up rituals, about sexual roleplaying, about “hooters” themselves. (If that slang term is new to you, suffice it to say that Cheryl's anatomy provides the definition.)October 21, 1982, Frank Rich, “Stage: ‘Hooters,’ comedy by Ted Tally, revived”, in New York Times, page C19

Questions about hooters

What does hooters mean?
Hooters means a woman's breasts.
What is hooters the plural of?
Hooters is the plural of hooter.
What part of speech is hooters?
Hooters is a noun.

Words near hooters in the dictionary

  1. Hooten
  2. hootenannie
  3. hootenannies
  4. hootenanny
  5. hooter
  6. hooters
  7. hootest
  8. hooteth
  9. Hoothodeyaa
  10. hootie
  11. hootie hoo

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