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Definition of Hooter
1. Noun. Informal terms for the nose.
Generic synonyms: Nose, Olfactory Organ
Geographical relationships: America, The States, U.s., U.s.a., United States, United States Of America, Us, Usa
2. Noun. A device on an automobile for making a warning noise.
Generic synonyms: Alarm, Alarm System, Warning Device
Group relationships: Auto, Automobile, Car, Machine, Motorcar
Terms within: Horn Button
Derivative terms: Hoot
3. Noun. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
Generic synonyms: Bird Of Prey, Raptor, Raptorial Bird
Group relationships: Order Strigiformes, Strigiformes
Specialized synonyms: Owlet, Athene Noctua, Little Owl, Horned Owl, Great Gray Owl, Great Grey Owl, Strix Nebulosa, Strix Aluco, Tawny Owl, Barred Owl, Strix Varia, Otus Asio, Screech Owl, Screech Owl, Scops Owl, Spotted Owl, Strix Occidentalis, Hoot Owl, Hawk Owl, Surnia Ulula, Asio Otus, Long-eared Owl, Laughing Jackass, Laughing Owl, Sceloglaux Albifacies, Barn Owl, Tyto Alba
Derivative terms: Hoot, Owlet
Definition of Hooter
1. Noun. A horn in a motor vehicle. ¹
2. Noun. (slang) A nose, especially a large one. ¹
3. Noun. (slang usually in the plural) A woman's breast. ¹
4. Noun. An owl. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hooter
1. one that hoots [n -S] - See also: hoots
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooter
Literary usage of Hooter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Polly Peablossom's Wedding: And Other Tales by Thomas A. Burke (1854)
"OUR old acquaintance, Mike hooter, made another visit to town last week, and
being, as he supposed, beyond the hearing of his brethren in the church, ..."
2. Traits of American Humour by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1852)
"V. HOW MIKE hooter CAME VERY NEAR IN the Yazoo Hills, near the town of Sartartia,
in the good State of Mississippi, there lived at no distant date one Mike ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Louisiana Supreme Court (1866)
"... that the testimony taken oil the T"» SM« trial of the motion for a new trial,
and which was before the jury on the hooter first trial, and is annexed to ..."
4. Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis (1864)
"Excitement in Washington—The President not Scared " a hooter" WASHINGTON, May
26th, 1832. ... hooter."
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