wolfcall

plural wolfcalls

1. alternativeAlternative form of wolf call.

   They could not step out of their enclaves and avoid the speeding cars with wolfcall horns.

   1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Penguin Books, published 1973, page 71

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   We were now walking at the very edge of the water, the tide lapping at our feet, and the four or five guys, with guffaws and wolfcalls, were nearly tripping us up with the bike wheels, jostling us, reaching out to grab and pinch at our breasts and behinds.

   1989, Cathy Young, Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, page 114

   On one occasion, two carloads of guys pulled up alongside me, offering lifts. When I declined, they drove off uttering wolfcalls.

   1990, Robyn, “Incognito”, in F.M.I.: Female Mimics International, volume 19, number 6 / 56, MAGCORP, The Magazine Corporation of America, California, page 16

   There’s a parking garage and a taxi garage shoulder to shoulder whose shiftless employees litter the sidewalk night and day, vying in multilingual competition for the most salacious wolfcalls toward any women hapless enough to pass down the street.

   2003, Toby Cecchini, Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 3