hooter

plural hooters

1. A person who hoots.
2. The horn in a motor vehicle.
3. UKA 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

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   When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.

   1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152

   A chime whistle, presented to the L.M.S.R. by American model railway enthusiasts in 1939, is installed now as a works hooter at Crewe Works, as its height precludes its use on a British locomotive.

   1946 September and October, “Notes and News: Locomotive Whistle Gift”, in Railway Magazine, page 322

4. slangA nose, especially a large one.First known use 1950s

   Somebody yelled, ‘You bit off a bloke’s nose in Ireland.’ The story was that I’d amputated his hooter.

   2014, Vinnie Jones, It's Been Emotional, page 118

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   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)

   Shouldn't worry me, I thought, but sure enough, 20 seconds later the smell of wafting cigarette smoke drifts over the back of my seat and up my hooter.

   1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 36

   Synonyms: nose, beak, beezer, boko, conk, honker, neb, pecker

5. An owl.
6. USespeciallyplural normallyslangA woman's breast.First known use 1970s

   Synonyms: assets, babylons, balloons, baps, badonkers, bangers, bazongas, bazookas

7. slangA penis.First known use 1990s

   He called it “Hooterville,” mainly because he was such a fan of Petticoat Junction, and he really enjoyed getting his hooter worked on.

   2006, Eric Mawson, Oil and Vinegar: A Conscripted Soldier in the Vietnam War

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   There, nestled in one of her gloved palms was a massive, blue-veined hooter with a pus-filled bump on it the size of a pecan. It was his hooter and his pus-filled bump. ¶ “You ole rascal,” she said, and gently lowered his dick between his legs.

   1994, Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-Tep, page 23

   Synonyms: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga

8. slangA large cannabis cigarette.

   Synonyms: hoot, bifta, bifter, blunt, bogie, bomber, bone, bun

9. datedThe tiniest amount; a whit or jot.

   G.G. understood that I meant the licence, and said he didn't care a hooter about failing his driving test.

   1969, Jerzy Peterkiewicz, Green Flows the Bile, page 25

   Synonyms: hoot, ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, continental