HOOTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hooter mean? 

• HOOTER (noun)
  The noun HOOTER has 3 senses:

1. informal terms for the nose

2. a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

3. nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes

  Familiarity information: HOOTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for the nose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

beak; honker; hooter; nozzle; schnoz; schnozzle; snoot; snout

Hypernyms ("hooter" is a kind of...):

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A device on an automobile for making a warning noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

automobile horn; car horn; hooter; horn; motor horn

Hypernyms ("hooter" is a kind of...):

alarm; alarm system; warning device (a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event)

Meronyms (parts of "hooter"):

horn button (a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile)

Holonyms ("hooter" is a part of...):

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

Derivation:

hoot (to utter a loud clamorous shout)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bird of Minerva; bird of night; hooter; owl

Hypernyms ("hooter" is a kind of...):

bird of prey; raptor; raptorial bird (any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hooter"):

owlet (young owl)

barn owl; Tyto alba (mottled buff and white owl often inhabiting barns and other structures; important in rodent control)

laughing jackass; laughing owl; Sceloglaux albifacies (almost extinct owl of New Zealand)

Asio otus; long-eared owl (slender European owl of coniferous forests with long ear tufts)

hawk owl; Surnia ulula (grey-and-white diurnal hawk-like owl of northern parts of the northern hemisphere)

hoot owl (any owl that hoots as distinct from screeching)

spotted owl; Strix occidentalis (a large owl of North America found in forests from British Columbia to central Mexico; has dark brown plumage and a heavily spotted chest)

scops owl (any of several small owls having ear tufts and a whistling call)

screech owl (any owl that has a screeching cry)

Otus asio; screech owl (small North American owl having hornlike tufts of feathers whose call sounds like a quavering whistle)

barred owl; Strix varia (large owl of eastern North America having its breast and abdomen streaked with brown)

Strix aluco; tawny owl (reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes)

great gray owl; great grey owl; Strix nebulosa (large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia)

horned owl (large owls having prominent ear tufts)

Athene noctua; little owl (small European owl)

Holonyms ("hooter" is a member of...):

order Strigiformes; Strigiformes (owls)

Derivation:

hoot (utter the characteristic sound of owls)