Usually means: Unsolicited, often sexual, street harassment.
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  1. catcall: Merriam-Webster
  2. catcall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catcall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catcall: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catcall: Vocabulary.com
  6. catcall: Wordnik
  7. catcall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. catcall: Wiktionary
  9. catcall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. catcall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. catcall: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Catcall, catcall: Dictionary.com
  13. Catcall (musician), Catcall (novel), Catcall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Catcall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. catcall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. catcall: Rhymezone
  17. Catcall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. catcall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. catcall: FreeDictionary.org
  20. catcall: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. catcall: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. catcall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. catcall: Encyclopedia

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  1. CATCALL: Acronym Finder

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  1. catcall: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
noun:  A shout, whistle, or comment of a harassingly sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
noun:  (historical) A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.
verb:  (transitive) To make such an exclamation.
noun:  (programming) In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.

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