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Noun: heckling  he-k(u-)ling
  1. Shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree
    "The politician faced constant heckling during his campaign rally";
    - barracking [Brit]
Verb: heckle  he-kul
  1. Challenge aggressively
    "Protesters heckled the speaker throughout his speech"
     
  2. Comb with a heckle
    "heckle hemp or flax";
    - hackle, hatchel

Derived forms: hecklings

Type of: break, comb, cut off, disrupt, disruption, gap, interrupt, interruption

Encyclopedia: Heckling, Moselle

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