0 past simple and past participle of hiss
1 to make a noise like a long s sound:
Why do snakes hiss?
The iron was hissing and spluttering.
People in the audience were hissing their disapproval.
"Shut up, Tom!" she hissed.
We have reports in the press of witnesses being hissed and booed or cheered, which brings the court into disrepute.
I remember a play being hissed off the stage because it was not considered decent.
It was hissed off the stage because of one particular action which took place on the stage, and which could not be read in the manuscript.
The next speaker was hissed and jeered.
Before the start of the matches, he asked to give a statement to the crowd, which booed and hissed and threw things.
You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad.
The crowd hissed and booed the jurors, and tried to attack the defendants as they left the courtroom.
The official musicians mentioned in the previous scene are joined by outsiders, one of which made a mistake in the notes and was hissed.
