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catcall

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈkætkɔl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aacclltStarts with CEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. utter catcalls at

Word origin

First attested in the mid-17th c., from the resemblance to cats' nocturnal cries. From cat + call.

Used in a sentence

  • There, amid the curses and catcalls of sweaty beer drinkers, the tour's headliners are set to engage in a hallowed feminist ritual:
  • At what period was the custom of blowing catcalls at the theatre discontinued?
  • When Susan Seligson thinks about breasts — and, since she’s a DDD-endowed (touché) middle-aged woman who’s been groped and catcalled her whole life, that’s often, too — she thinks about ... her own DDDs.

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