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Badger at the comedy club
Answer for the clue "Badger at the comedy club ", 6 letters:
heckle
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Word definitions for heckle in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax" [syn: hackle , hatchel ] challenge aggressively
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"flax comb," c.1300, hechel , perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *hecel or a cognate Germanic word (such as Middle High German hechel , Middle Dutch hekel ), from Proto-Germanic *hakila- , from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth" (see hook (n.)).
Usage examples of heckle.
Since Eure had heckled Mayor Cockrell at the Forrest rally, he thought he knew what answer to expect.
Rudely heckled, he is thoroughly disconcerted by the time the obligatory laurel wreath arrives to honor his presence.
The place was only moderately full before dinner, but a few card players heckled one another over poker hands, and several vid fans had gathered around a viewer to watch one of the vidramas the ship had stocked for the voyage.
Donohue went home, still acting as if two dozen reporters, eight tails, and a score of heckling citizens did not fall within his notice.
Wearing polished mail that glinted and shone in the hot sunlight, they endured a barrage of heckling from the envious knights staying home.
So that reformers everywhere were eager to hear of a system of voting that would free the electors from the tyranny of parties, and at the same time render a candidate independent of the votes of heckling minorities, and dependent only on the votes of the men who believed in him and his politics.
She was weak enough today, however, to go down and make a cup of tea and take it back to bed, drinking it while listening to the Today programme on the radio, where the heckling of speakers and the interruptions by the interviewers never failed to irritate her.
Without heavy guns, without adequate torpedoes, and with no hope of reinforcements from anywhere, these fragile ships must try to harass and heckle and outguess a massive collection of warships and cruisers any one of which had more fire power than what the Americans together could muster.
Of course, - he was subject to the usual heckling, especially since on a chart of that scale our little four hundred or so miles a day was not a very len pressive advance across the great blank expanse of paper.
He tried not to think that: the horses might betray anything he thought, though he got none of the expected catcalls and heckling from the junior bystanders.
The play had been very successful so far, eliciting much laughter and only a little heckling - which Laevo dealt with easily enough.
It did nothing to stop the heckling, the pokes and prods and grabs at blossoms that--Sam could see, even from his distance--left scalps red with blood.
Aubrey deLint's shoelaces together and Krazy-Glued Mary Esther Thode's left buttock to the seat of her chair but everyone glycemically mature enough to sit still and watch the cartridge is having a rousing good time, eating chocolate cannolis and twenty-six-layer baklava and Redi-Whip by itself if they want and homemade Raisinettes and little cream-filled caramel things and occasionally heckling or cheering ironically, every so often throwing sweets that stick to the screen, giving the smooth sterile Gentle a sort of carbuncu-lar look that everyone approves.
James, clusters of brightly garbed fops en route to heckle the actors at the theater, and young men consumed with Byronesque ennui who were headed for adventure in the stews.
Day are still in progress w/r/t which kid or kids tied Aubrey deLint's shoelaces together and Krazy-Glued Mary Esther Thode's left buttock to the seat of her chair but everyone glycemically mature enough to sit still and watch the cartridge is having a rousing good time, eating chocolate cannolis and twenty-six-layer baklava and Redi-Whip by itself if they want and homemade Raisinettes and little cream-filled caramel things and occasionally heckling or cheering ironically, every so often throwing sweets that stick to the screen, giving the smooth sterile Gentle a sort of carbuncu-lar look that everyone approves.