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n. - Someone who communicates disapproval by means of a fricative sound

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Usage examples (8)
  • Verb (used without object) : The audience hissed when the actor forgot his lines
  • Verb (used with object) : The audience hissed the controversial play. ,They hissed down the author when he tried to speak
  • Head on over to the Bronx Zoo's website to secure a hisser.
  • But here the hisser is not so safe, nor the hissee -- to coin a convenient word -- so defenceless.
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