[
US
/ˈhɛkɫɪŋ/
]
[ UK /hˈɛklɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛklɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree
How To Use heckling In A Sentence
- Karlovic's commentary ranges from self-deprecation to self-defense to heckling of other tennis Tweeters to absurdism. Words of Wisdom Provided by Dr. Ivo
- Apart from the increased likelihood of heckling, self-contained groups like stag or hen parties tend to gab among themselves during performances, attention spans drained by too much drink.
- The traders have taken to heckling him and his security men have warned him to stay away. Times, Sunday Times
- Jack Straw, a man so unpleasant that even his son shuns his policies (although, the fact that he was dobbed in for cannabis possession by his own father may have something to do with it), was defending—probably ineptly and with a lie in every sentence—the government's Iraq policy, when Walter Wolfgang "heckled" him (if Jack thinks that's heckling, he should see a crap stand-up gig in Glasgow). Archive 2005-09-01
- Sometimes the heckling develops into something worse. Times, Sunday Times
- The ceremony was disrupted by unprecedented heckling and slogan-chanting.
- But teasing from team-mates is as much a backhanded plaudit as jeers from opposition supporters, which is why both the ribbing and the heckling have been gathering momentum the older this season gets.
- Despite the squawks of the Conservative party, a programme about the history of heckling was transmitted on Monday on BBC3.
- The ceremony was disrupted by unprecedented heckling and slogan-chanting.
- He made the mistake of trying to address such heckling and misspoke.