Catcall

Quick meaning: Catcall is a noun meaning A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.

Meaning

A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.

More Meanings

1. A shout, whistle, or comment of a harassingly sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
2. (transitive) To make such an exclamation.
3. (programming) In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
4. (historical) A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.

Example Sentences

At what period was the custom of blowing catcalls at the theatre discontinued?

There, amid the curses and catcalls of sweaty beer drinkers, the tour's headliners are set to engage in a hallowed feminist ritual:

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.

Java does not let you make members more private than they are in parent classes, so has no catcall problem for changing availability. Thus to avoid catcalls with export problems, you should adopt a once-public, always-public policy.

Word Forms

• catcalls
• cat-call
• catcalling
• catcalled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cat-call, call, booing, squawk, caterwaul, hoot.

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