Object

• owl: An owl hooted on the top of the warehouse, the wind getting colder.

• horn: Don't slam car doors, hoot car horns, or shout to your friends.

• car: The director seems to pick out one at a time a hooting car, a clanking, scratching, scraping.

Converse of object

• give: Britain didn't give a hoot for the welfare of a few heathen Turks.

• care: But why should we care a hoot about what Rouse thinks?

• have: Even Tracey Emin looked like she was having a hoot in the front row.

• hear: I ran after those awful aliens I threw my boot but then I heard a hoot.

Adjective modifier

• absolute: Anybody familiar with British pub culture, more especially ' blokes ' will find this an absolute hoot.

• real: Once through the sump, declared a real hoot by all concerned, we had a quick crawl around the large chambers.

Modifies a noun

• owl: Ghostly phosphorescent footsteps lead through darkened corridors of atomized attic space and hoot owl operatics.

Modifying Another Word

• n't: They must be the only Owls who do n't hoot at night!

• much: The road was very busy with traffic, with much hooting of horns, obviously a very popular weekend route for locals.

Noun used with modifier

• owl: Real owls hoot, making all of us jump.

Preposition: of

• owl: The hoot of an owl, the sound of some animal moving in the darkness just reinforces the words he says.

• horn: The road was very busy with traffic, with much hooting of horns, obviously a very popular weekend route for locals.

Preposition: with

• laughter: Some have them hooting with laughter: 'How do you find your mouth?