Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the nose.

1959		F. Norman Fings II i: So I sticks one on his hooter – makes a bloody mess of him.
1965		G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 243: Why don’t you keep your fucking hooter out of it?
1978		F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 35: Just watcha step, mate, if yuh finkin’ of stickin’ yuh hooter in that little love nest.
1986		J. Sullivan ‘Tea for Three’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] What’s that Andy want to go sticking his ’ooter into my affairs for eh, eh?
1989		M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 13: With my ample hooter, it got clogged up very quickly.
1992		M. Coleman Fatty 204: ‘The thing about Turvey is that he’s got this huge hooter’.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 85: Ray puts some posh on the corner of his credit card and takes a rough hit up that hooter.
2002		R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 300: Try chopping that up on a mirror and shoving it up your hooter.
2007		Observer Mag. 30 Sept. 10: There should be more tickles and congestion in hooters this autumn and winter.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 264: I’ve done two fat lines up the hooter.
2021		P Howard Braywatch 310: The old dear decides to stick her ample hooter in then.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 309: I plunged my hooter into glasses the size of footballs. Sniffing like a heroic drugs-squad mutt.

2. (US) a telephone.

1981

S. King Cujo (1982) 224: Trenton got on the old hooter.

3. a female breast; usu. in pl.

1979		(con. 1952) G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 178: Plenty of nook up here in Maine. Went the distance last night with that babe from Walker’s. Huge hooters, hot!
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 231: This man lost an eye to a . . .’ ‘Hooter’, Kipper Garth said, ‘His wife’s hooter.’.
1998		D. Clowes Ghost World 23: Like what if Mrs. Noyes had massive, pointy hooters?
1998		R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Les then spun round on top of her and started giving it to Evelyn in her giant hooters.
2006		F.X. Toole Pound for Pound 278: Her white hooters glowed in the shadow of the doorway.
2011		Slate 29 Apr. 🌐 An entire generation has grown up in a world of hair extensions, pneumatic hooters, and stripper poles.