heckle

Object

• speaker: July 4, 1913, p 585 Text of letter to the Daily Chronicle supporting Suffragettes who heckle speakers at political meetings.
• comedian: John Leslie has been thrown out of an Edinburgh Fringe show after his rowdy pals started heckling the comedian.
• speech: In 1909 Mary Gawthorpe heckled a speech given by Winston Churchill.
• member: Members heckled Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy during a campaign walkabout at the Fox and Goose shopping center last week.
• opponent: Old-fashioned hustings meetings with the extra edge that comes from heckling opponents in the crowd.
• candidate: Ben Leapman heckles the candidates In half the country, sitting Labor MPs will defend their seats at the next election.

Preposition: at

• meeting: Hundreds came to listen and to heckle at these meetings.

Modifying Another Word

• much: The first game started with much heckling of the players, especially the better ones.
• not: Do not heckle trivial points - wait for the first absurd or outrageous statement.
• n't: I did n't heckle them, just laughed at them for the wrong reasons.
• back: Can't resist it - heckle back - " Nice braces, mate " .
• ever: Last night, I had one of my best ever heckles ( well, audience participations ).
• loudly: During his speech he was loudly heckled by a large group of Scottish Socialist Party supporters calling him ' fascist ' .

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: If you were talking about the Oscars he was not heckled off.

Used with why or when

• when: Lula said he was not afraid of heckles: he had been heckled when the PT and the CUT were launched.

Preposition: of

• speaker: I will miss her at the indoor meets where Kirsty's heckling of the speakers was a regular feature.

Preposition: from

• floor: That was too much, even for the usually reserved Anne Weyman from fpa, who led the heckling from the floor.