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hiss at

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hiss at someone or something 
1. [for a reptile] to make a hissing sound as a warning. The snake hissed at me. Otherwise I wouldn't have known it was there. The lizard hissed at the snake.
2. [for someone] to make a hissing sound at someone to show disapproval. The audience hissed at the performer, who was not all that bad. They hissed at all three acts.
See also: hiss


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The typewriter was the "immutable witness" in the case--and defense and prosecution witnesses agreed during the two trials that the State Department documents had been copied on the same machine as correspondence written by Priscilla Hiss at the time.
 
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