Definition of Hooter

1. Noun. Informal terms for the nose.

Exact synonyms: Beak, Honker, Nozzle, Schnoz, Schnozzle, Snoot, Snout
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.
Exact synonyms: Automobile Horn, Car Horn, Horn, Motor Horn
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.

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

hoosgow
hoosgows
hoosh
hooshed
hooshes
hooshing
hoot
hoot owl
hootch
hootches
hootchie
hootchies
hooted
hootenannies
hootenanny
hooter (current term)
hooters
hootier
hootiest
hootin' tootin'
hooting
hootings
hoots
hooty
hoove
hooved
hooven
hoover up
hoovered
hoovering

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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