Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - heckle

(heckles, heckling, heckled) If people in an audience heckle public speakers or performers, they interrupt them, for example by making rude remarks. They heckled him and interrupted his address with angry questions... A small group of youths stayed behind to heckle and shout abuse. VERB: V n, V • Heckle is also a noun. The offending comment was in fact a heckle from an audience member. N-COUNT • heckling The ceremony was disrupted by unprecedented heckling and slogan-chanting. N-UNCOUNT • heckler (hecklers) As he began his speech, a heckler called out asking for his opinion on gun control. N-COUNT