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Heckler

Definition: Heckler

Heckler

Noun

1. Someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonym: Heckler

Synonym: badgerer (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Heckler

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Heckler (1940)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Heckler

DomainTitle

Books

  • Heckler & Koch's Mp5 Submachine Gun (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Heckler

"Heckler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heckler" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2766,962

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Heckler

The following table summarizes the usage of "heckler" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HecklerLast name1,00017,739
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Heckler

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "heckler": heckler-in-chief.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Heckler

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

heckler koch

1,296

heckler

128

heckler ramp plan

39

heckler koch firearm

35

heckler kock

33

heckler kotch

25

heckler koch usa.com

22

heckler koch mp5

20

heckler koch usp

17

heckler koch.com

16

heckler koch usa

14

heckler koch pistol

14

heckler koch part

10

heckler koch rifle

10

heckler koch und

10

heckler home koch page

6

heckler kosh

6

heckler koch usc

6

heckler hk koch

6

heckler koch p2000

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Heckler

Language Translations for "heckler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ai që bën pyetje të pakëndshme. (various references)

   

Czech

  

výtržník (brawler, hoodlum, rough, troublemaker), provokatér (instigator). (various references)

   

French

  

siffleur. (various references)

   

German

  

Zwischenrufer (hecklers). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αυτόσ που διακόπτει ρήτορα, ταραξίασ (agitator, hoodlum, rioter, rowdy, ruffler, trouble maker). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מפריע (hindrance, impediment, interrupter, obstructive), קורא קריאות בי ים, טר"ן (bore, bother, nuisance, pest, terror, troublesome person). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

heccelõ, kötözködõ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pettinatore (Comber), cardatore (carder, Comber). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trasneyder. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

møteplager. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecklerhay

   

Russian 

  

трепальщик льна. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ispitivač (examiner, interrogator, querist, questioner, tester). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

que fastidia a un orador, objetante (objector). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

häcklare. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sorularla sıkıştıran kimse, keten tarakçısı. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người truy, người hỏi vặn, người chất vấn (interrogator, querist, questioner). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Heckler

Derivations

Words beginning with "heckler": hecklers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Heckler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eckle, hechler, heckel, Hekla, hekle, hekler, Henckel, Jeckle, Seckler, shmeckle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Heckler"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "heckler" (pronounced he"kler)
3-k l erchronicler, mickler, recycler, sprinkler.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Heckler

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-k-l-r"

-1 letter: heckle, lecher.

-2 letters: cheek, cheer, cleek, clerk, creek, creel, leech.

-3 letters: cere, eche, heck, heel, here, herl, keel, lech, leek, leer, lehr, leke, reck, reek, reel.

-4 letters: cee, cel, eel, eke, elk, ere, her, lee, lek, rec, ree.

-5 letters: eh, el, er, he, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-k-l-r"
 

+1 letter: hecklers.

 

+3 letters: cherrylike, cherublike.

 

+4 letters: breechblock, huckleberry, leatherback, leatherneck, schnorkeled.

 

+5 letters: breechblocks, electroshock, leatherbacks, leathernecks, shellcracker.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Heckler


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 63 6B 6C 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .    -.-.    -.-    .-..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100011 01101011 01101100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#99 &#107 &#108 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0063 006B 006C 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42716977787184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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