0 someone who interrupts a public speech or performance with loud, unfriendly statements or questions:
Sometimes as a comedian you get hecklers, which is a good thing because it gives you something to work with.
The heckler had been shouting for quite some time when I stepped in.
There were hecklers in the crowd, their taunts going off like firecrackers.
Concern with the immediate effects on a reasonable person reduces worries that the provision gives the thin-skinned a veto on speech, akin to an unacceptable "heckler's veto" on speech.
Five years ago the heckler who advocated partnership would have been the man to be howled down.
I do not think that constables should have the right to suppress hecklers.
There is the ordinary straightforward heckler, the interrupter who is the salt of every political meeting.
I can see her now, standing on a platform in the street replying to hecklers with infallible accuracy, as she always did.
