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howl down

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howl someone down and hoot someone down
Fig. to yell at or boo someone's performance; to force someone to stop talking by yelling or booing. The audience howled the inept magician down. They howled down the musician.
See also: howl


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Screech, do anything--that's what you're paid for, to afford amusement, to give bad art for the populace to howl down.
 
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