Word: hooting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extend in a long straggling line for a long mile ahead. What is the matter? Are the Sophomores afraid of their temporal fathers, the Faculty, or of broken heads? We are greeted on every side by taunts and jibes from upper classmen, and even the Freshmen begin to hoot at us. It is unbearable; something must be done. Fifteen or twenty of us get together and shout lustily for '87 and then throw ourselves upon the advancing column; our classmates are now in duty bound to assist us, and soon a big crowd is collected. Just at this moment...
...Whenever a fly was hit by a Yale man they raised such a shout that the men out in the field could not hear which one was to take it; then, whenever our pitcher went to pitch at any critical point in the game, they would yell and hoot so as to upset him. They also would cheer for our side's errors, or again, when one of our men came to the bat they would cheer for "three strikes...
...hoot" is the last Williams slang for a toot, howl, or bust...