heckler
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Noun
heckler (plural hecklers)
- One who heckles; somebody who insults, makes fun of, or teases.
- The juggler always seemed to have a heckler or two in the crowd on Saturdays.
- 2010, Stewart Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate, page 323:
- Scott, who runs the Classic and promotes me here, said I was wrong about the heckler being the alpha male of the sport fan group. He said the alpha male would have money, cars, women and be silent. The heckler was a kind of delta male, the jester to the king alpha male. He would spend his life in the orbit of power, trailing it, circling it, but never achieving it.
- (US, military, slang) An aircraft flying attack missions at night.
- 1949, Walter Karig, Battle Report:
- […] the usual gap between the time the last strike of the day departed and the first night hecklers arrived was closed with "zippers" — night fighters who, using day fighter tactics, proceeded to the target in daylight in time to relieve the last day blanket patrol.
- Alternative form of hackler (“worker who separates flax”)
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one who heckles, insults, makes fun of, or teases
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