hooter

hoot +‎ -er

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhuː.tə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhu.tɚ/, [ˈhu.ɾɚ]
• Hyphenation: hoot‧er
• Rhymes: -uːtə(r)

hooter (plural hooters)

1. A person who hoots.
2. The horn in a motor vehicle.
3. (slang) A nose, especially a large one. [from 1950s]
   • 1964, Wilfrid Brambell as Grandfather, A Hard Day's Night:

     Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose. He can't help having a hideous great hooter! And his poor little head, trembling under the weight of it!

   • 2014, Vinnie Jones, It's Been Emotional, page 118:

     Somebody yelled, ‘You bit off a bloke’s nose in Ireland.’ The story was that I’d amputated his hooter.

4. (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breast. [from 1970s]
5. (slang) A penis. [from 1990s]
   • 1994, Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-Tep, page 23:

     There, nestled in one of her gloved palms was a massive, blue-veined hooter with a pus-filled bump on it the size of a pecan. It was his hooter and his pus-filled bump. ¶ “You ole rascal,” she said, and gently lowered his dick between his legs.

   • 2006, Eric Mawson, Oil and Vinegar: A Conscripted Soldier in the Vietnam War‎:

     He called it “Hooterville,” mainly because he was such a fan of Petticoat Junction, and he really enjoyed getting his hooter worked on.

6. An owl.
7. (slang) A large cannabis cigarette.

• See also Thesaurus:nose
• See also Thesaurus:breasts
• See also Thesaurus:penis

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