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hoot down

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v. t.1.To shout down; to cause (a speaker) to cease trying to speak by loud derisive shouts.
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vt sep → niederschreien


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Currently the poetry slam, an event where drunken audiences hoot down sensitive poems about dying grandmothers or inevitable divorces and bestow twenty-dollar prizes on scatological doggerel, is sweeping the nation.
In Defense of SLAM! Nation by ya Salaam, Kalamu / Black Issues Book Review
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