0 a nose --
1 an electrical device that makes a loud noise, often to mark the start or end of work at a factory --
2 a woman's breasts. This use of the word is considered offensive. --
I want the waterworks in my constituency to stop sounding a hooter at 9 am.
They have actually started painting the name on the second, but evidently the hooter had gone, and they had finished work half-way through.
The factory worker normally went to work at the 8 o'clock hooter and came out when the hooter sounded later in the afternoon.
I know of a mobile shop which sounds a bell or a mechanical hooter.
That hooter is heard about six or seven miles off.
Other people passed by, flashing their lights on and sounding their hooters when they passed on the inside, which they should not have done.
I am sure that it is safer to sound the hooter.
Every day the hooter would blow if there was no work: if the hooter did not blow there was work.