heckle
IPA: hˈɛkʌɫ
noun
- The long shining feathers on a cock's neck.
- A feather ornament in the full-dress bonnets of Highland regiments.
- An interruption during a show, especially a comedy performance
- Alternative form of hackle (“tool for separating flax”) [An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.]
verb
- (transitive) To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses.
- (transitive) To insult, tease, make fun of or badger, especially during a comedy performance.
- (textiles) To prepare flax for spinning using special combs called hackles
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Examples of "heckle" in Sentences
- He is always heckled by the students.
- He was heckled while walking on the street.
- The audience traditionally heckles the performers.
- Eddie responded by heckling the heckler and embarrassing him.
- In the dressing process the flax is broken, scutched and heckled.
- Bryan heckled, stupidly, despite being well out of Bloomberg's earshot.
- The affronted audience heckle the group, and begin to hurl items at them.
- The Obama campaign does not heckle, at least in ways that are officially sanctioned.
- They heckled and interrupted candidates on several occasions, often to chant a prepared script.
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