Verb (used without object) : The audience hissed when the actor forgot his lines. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The audience hissed the controversial play. ,They hissed down the author when he tried to speak. From Dictionary.com.
Head on over to the Bronx Zoo's website to secure a hisser. From Wordnik.com. [Grossest Valentine's Day Gift Ever?] Reference
But here the hisser is not so safe, nor the hissee -- to coin a convenient word -- so defenceless. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Begone, then: take flight, thou venomous hisser, thou lying worm, thou begetter of vipers! ". From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
" Domino shook him, though rather timidly, for he still clasped the weapon that she now called his -hisser. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
U.Sssssss Seeeeee can have the hisser. From Wordnik.com. [WeHo White Guy?] Reference
This new kitten is more of a hisser and a yowler. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
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