Definitions for heckles

heckles heck·le

Spelling: [hek-uh l]
IPA: /ˈhɛk əl/

Heckles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in heckles (ceehkls).

Definitions for heckles

noun

  1. hackle1 (def 5).

verb (used with object)

  1. to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
  2. hackle1 (def 7).

Origin of heckles

1275-1325; Middle English hekelen, variant of hechelen to comb flax; akin to hackle1, hatchel

Examples for heckles

“You can hold your own rally,” the president told the heckler.

There were early reports that the heckler was a Howard Stern staffer.

I was an uncommon grand hand at the bools mysel, and could throw the ba as far as Robbie King the heckler—ye mind, Tammie?

He got a huge reaction, which could not have discouraged him from taking on a heckler at a Meg Whitman event a few days later.

He was a stout man dressed in a drab jacket and had the appearance of a heckler.

But then in 2011 he weaponized comedy, slicing and dicing his political rivals in the same way a comedian deals with a heckler.

In 1654 the spire was destroyed by lightning; the skilful architect heckler was obliged to rebuild it sixty five feet high.

Glaser says attacking the audience is off-limits, though she did call a heckler a “c--t” once.

Then the bearded attorney, whose fame was secure as a heckler of witnesses, rose dramatically from his chair.

He was a stout man, dressed in a dark jacket, and had the appearance of a heckler.

Word Value for heckles
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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