(n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
(n.) The box tortoise.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you ask me what it symbolizes, it symbolizes, in a personal way, the courage and the valor of my ancestors, who in their time did what they believed was the right thing to do.” Jones, 73, who runs a chain of “Cooter’s Place” outlets in the south that sell Dukes memorabilia including Confederate flag license plates , said the flag had a place in southern culture that had become detached from its history as a battle flag – and from the question of race and racism.
(2) But he is better known as the actor who played the mechanic Cooter in the 1980s hit television show The Dukes of Hazzard .
Hooter
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The dehumanisation of women by Hooters and Unilad makes it easy for its supporters to threaten us with violence, because they help normalise the view that women are disposable objects.
(2) Hodgson and his players were kept awake on their first night by noise from a nearby Hooters bar and had to enlist the help of the mayor to shut down an open-air area and keep the volume down.
(3) The view is startling: Tower Bridge is slapped across the window like it's perched on your hooter as a pair of novelty specs.
(4) I believe that establishments like Hooters and communities like Unilad are contributing to the normalisation of this degradation, this violent language, this view of women as objects.
(5) It was a natural progression when he took over Juke Box Jury, chairing a celebrity panel as they assessed likely chart hits – hailed with a hotel reception bell – or misses – dismissed with a hooter.
(6) The hooter sounds for the first wave of swimmers, then the second.
(7) Sinfield was handed what would have been a relatively tough conversion anyway but, even with the changing of the lead on the line, he knocked it over – before Watkins’ try on the hooter sealed the farewell Leeds’ iconic trio of departing stars imagined back in February.
(8) Hodgson will be relieved to know that Hooters does not have a bar in Chantilly and officials in the French town have told the Guardian the more pressing concern will be to create a suitable training pitch at the run-down Stade des Bourgognes, a municipal ground that is home to an amateur side.
(9) The last journalist I had in here asked to go to Hooters,” grinned Ratzlaff.
(10) Can you get any loftier in tone or record than this (forgetting for a moment how the Mail's Quentin Letts describes him: "A retired Whitehall eminence who once held the claret jug for Roy Jenkins"; "his hooter is the colour of a lunchtime burgundy"; "tremendously urbane and chortlesome"; "beautifully mannered"; "the rich creaminess of a ripe Stilton")?
(11) Hooters supporters started to leave comments yesterday morning on the Bristol Feminist Network Facebook page , blaming us for its closure.
(12) Additionally, two-thirds of the women surveyed felt excluded from networking opportunities, including lunch meetings at Hooters and on the golf course, because they were women.
(13) However, just over a year later, Hooters announced that it had closed .
(14) There’d be lots of smoke and drink, but that’s where you had to be to participate.” Ryan learned her trade in secret, doing open mics while studying town planning and working at Hooter’s.
(15) Hooters closed not because of pressure from feminists (if that was the case, it would never have opened) but because the managing company went into administration.
(16) Last year the group helped organise a well-attended conference; in 2008, they ran a campaign to stop a branch of US restaurant chain Hooters (where lightly clothed women serve up the burgers) opening in Sheffield.
(17) I am sorry that people lost their jobs and sincerely hope that they find new work soon, but I believe that the closure of Hooters is fundamentally a positive step.
(18) Leeds responded well and after Watkins put Hardaker away for their side’s first points of the evening, Sinfield converted and then slotted over a penalty of his own to make it 8-8 before Walsh showed all his experience by kicking over a drop-goal on the hooter to hand Saints the slenderest of leads at the interval.
(19) Back in 2010, self-styled "breastaurant" Hooters applied for a licence to open in Bristol.
(20) After a strip club was refused a licence earlier in the month, the closure of Hooters represents one less business on the high street that seeks to make money by objectifying women.