What's the difference between hooter and mermaid?

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.

Mermaid


Definition:

  • (n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite this exemption, things still managed to go tits-up early last year, when the social network deleted an image of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue .
  • (2) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Parakeet and the Mermaid’ at Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition, Tate Modern.
  • (4) Ditto the Little Mermaid’s Ariel, whose desire not just to change her circumstances but change her physical form has made her an unlikely object of identification among some younger members of the transgender community – a girl who believes herself literally born in the wrong body.
  • (5) The levels of two- and three-ring aromatics ranged from very low for the site outside Mermaid Sound and for one site within the Sound, to low for the four other sites within the Sound.
  • (6) The human and fishman MTs displayed a stoichiometry of 12 g atoms of Cu(I) per mol, while rainbow trout and mermaid MTs bound only 10.
  • (7) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
  • (8) Sirenomelia, or the mermaid syndrome, is the most extreme example of the caudal regression syndrome.
  • (9) In the 80s, Cher's acting career was big news: she carved a niche as a tough mother with a heart in Face and Mermaids, and won an Oscar in 1988 for the quick-witted Moonstruck, in which she played a no-nonsense New Yorker falling in love over opera.
  • (10) Samples from sites within Mermaid Sound closest to the town and port of Dampier showed noticeably higher levels than those from outside; the present study does not allow the source of the PAHs to be determined.
  • (11) As the perceptive sports writer Jerry Izenberg once said: “If they trawl the Ohio river for a thousand years, they are more likely to find a mermaid than an Olympic gold medal.” It is a rebuttal that Ali himself would have found heartbreakingly funny – and true.
  • (12) And that, increasingly, people aren’t prepared to go to all the trouble of going out to eat at their favourite restaurant – not when they can have the same food while sprawling on the sofa in a novelty mermaid blanket watching Homeland .
  • (13) A family of synthetic genes was constructed encoding a rainbow trout metallothionein (MT), a human MT, and two chimeric molecules which contained respectively (i) the N-terminal (or head) domain of human MT followed by the C-terminal (or tail) domain of a fish MT (termed mermaid MT) and (ii) the head domain of fish MT fused with the tail domain of human MT (denoted fishman MT).
  • (14) I just shot the Mermaid Parade in New York and it killed me,” he says.
  • (15) But," he Hanks-ishly adds, "shop can be good, too …" After college, he was cast in the TV show Bosom Buddies and caught the eye of Ron Howard, who cast him in his breakthrough role in Splash, a ridiculous but, thanks to Hanks, charming modern-day update on The Little Mermaid.
  • (16) Medical intervention is very important, especially for teenagers who are already in puberty,” says Susie Green, chair of Mermaids and mother of a trans daughter.
  • (17) A five-year-old with a fascination for butterflies and caterpillars and mermaids who began talking about suicide … Our child lives as a girl now and her school describes her as "calm, mature, bright-eyed and intelligent".
  • (18) The English singer has since recorded many of these with US band Wilco as The Mermaid Avenue Sessions .
  • (19) The Mermaids website is quite negative,” she says.
  • (20) Coral-rock oysters were collected in September 1982 from six locations in the area of Mermaid Sound in North-Western Australia.