heckler's veto
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Limiting an individual's free expression by heckle.
Example Sentences
- "2017, Jeffrey Beall, "What I learned from predatory publishers" in Biochemia Medica (vol 27, no 2), Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine They kept sending the emails to the university chancellor and others, hoping to implement the heckler’s veto. They tried to be as annoying as possible to the university so that the officials would get so tired of the emails that they would silence me just to make them stop."