Hooter2 U.S. colloq.
= hoot n.2
| 1839 Havana (N.Y.) Republican 21 Aug. (Th.), Now the Grampus [sc. a vessel] stopt, and didn't buge [= budge] one hooter. 1889 Commercial (Cincinnati) 17 Oct., It has not harmed the Republican cause in Ohio a hooter. 1896 Harper's Mag. XCII. 784/1 Now I can have all I want, I don't care a hooter! 1900 E. A. Dix Deacon Bradbury xii, ‘Do you mean that you don't know anything about the matter at all?’..‘Not a hooter.’ |