a hoot

Quote

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Definition

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fun, a good time, amusement; to care

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If you were having a really good time, you might make a noise out of excitement. That noise might sound like hoot! Or, if you’re having a good time, you might stay out late, late enough for owls to come out. In English, owls make the noise hoot.

So if something was a lot of fun, you could say it was a hoot. A person can be a hoot too: “Oh my brother? He’s a hoot! He’s always up to something funny.”

Robert Downy Jr. found out that posters for his new movie, Iron Man, were being vandalized for different causes. Since a movie has to be pretty famous for people to do that sort of thing, Downy was amused. He got a hoot out of the damaged posters.

Hoot has been a slang word for a long time, so long that it’s often used sarcastically. If someone says something was a hoot, but he doesn’t sound like he means it, it’s safe to assume to that he actually means the exact opposite. Whatever he’s talking about wasn’t fun at all.
A hoot also means, “to care,” and it’s usually used in the negative and when you’re trying to be mean. If you’re tired and trying to leave work, your boss might say, “I don’t give a hoot how long you’ve been here! You’re not leaving till your work is done!”

Examples

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“The party was a hoot! Everyone was there. “

“Look, I don’t give a hoot about your problems. Stop complaining! “

Winners

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	to laugh at it by --dead--
	I suppose it means ' getting the kicks out of it'. Raghusolanki by raghusolanki
	amusing by kaushalyats
	no to mind a things or not take it seriously by Abdoulaye alseny
	fun,amusement; to care by 永恒破灭者
	to get a hoot out of it = to laugh at it by Pavlionka

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