catcall
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Synonyms & Antonyms for catcall
Synonyms
bird [chiefly British], boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, jeer, raspberry, razz, snort
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Pignolet takes quotidian aspects of women’s lives — cosmetics, tampons, the crude catcalls that men toss at women on the street — and renders them in Mediterranean-style ceramics, including tiles and vases. — Los Angeles Times, "Datebook: A painter slyly picks apart the tropes through which women are seen," 5 Sep. 2019 And there were few catcalls when Peterman entered in the second half in place of starter Mike Glennon. — Jerry Mcdonald, The Mercury News, "Top eight takeaways from Raiders’ win over Rams," 10 Aug. 2019 Women can’t move freely, without being subject to stares, comments, questions, catcalls, solicitations, threats. — National Geographic, "Could a woman walk around the world today?," 5 Apr. 2019 The family has reported several other incidents of harassment in the past several months, including sporadic catcalls and hostile shouts. — Lauren Lumpkin, baltimoresun.com, "Girl charged after allegedly pelting Muslim family's home with eggs," 12 July 2018 After the filibuster ended, supporters disrupted Senate proceedings — with catcalls, cheers and chants from the public gallery above the Senate floor — and prevented senators from voting on the bill before midnight. — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, "Five years ago, she stood in the Texas Capitol and talked for more than 11 hours. Now, what's next?," 20 June 2018 My body got lots of unwanted attention from boys — mainly comments and catcalls, and a bunch of older boys surrounding me in the back of the school bus to watch my boobs bounce as the bus driver hit every pothole on the way home from school. — Neelanjana Banerjee, Teen Vogue, "Messy, Curly Hair Shaped My Identity as an Indian-American Woman," 5 June 2018 So maybe all those voices, all the insiders insisting that Heimlich will never be drafted, are wrong. Maybe some major league GM has been watching him mow down hitters in Corvallis this spring and heard that catcalls on the road have been few. — SI.com, "Prospect and Pariah," 16 May 2018 Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, Polish consul general Maciej Golubiewski and members of a committee that curates the Katyn Memorial announced the agreement to catcalls and shouted epithets from a group of about three dozen protesters at City Hall. — Washington Post, "Plans announced for moving statue marking massacre of Poles," 15 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'catcall.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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