hootin' tootin'

alternative hootin', tootin'

1. Rowdy; boisterous and noisy.

   Think everyone would like to see what a hootin’, tootin’, fightin’ gang like yours looks like.

   1938, Telegraph Workers Journal, page 47

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   He was the best, hootin’, tootin’ son-of-a-seacook that ever hit a prairie breeze, in spite of this dum foolishness.

   1902, Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders: His Adventures West and East, page 58

   We’d knowed her since she was a yearlin’ as a swell spot for a nervous wreck to rest up in, but now she’s turned into a hootin’, tootin’ seaport, all disguised in wavin’ flags an’ banners.

   1936, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, page 59

   [P]aper on which someday I would write the story of how to make paper from wood, the romance of the forest camps, the river drive in spring, the roarin', hootin’, tootin’ life of the old-time lumberjack, the story of his favorite hobby, birling logs in competition in the booms, the prize usually a keg of whisky in those days.

   1943, “The Author and Journalist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 14

   Again, it is a lurid sex crime. Again, the crime revolves around a gang of small town hootin’, tootin’, harebrained hoodlums.

   1969, The Journal of the Producers Guild of America, page 37

   He showed that you could be a rah-rah, hootin’, tootin’ flag-waver without crossing the line into boorish behaviour.

   2000, Mark James, Into the Bear Pit, page 211

   Synonyms: rootin' tootin'

2. That makes hooting and tooting sounds.

   And an old-fashioned hootin’ tootin’ calliope from Sioux Falls.

   1961, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Arrow of Love, page 170