Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shoutdown

/ˈʃaʊtˌdaʊn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: shout-down
IPA: /ˈʃaʊtˌdaʊn/

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An event when someone shouts down (shouts louder than) someone in order to force through an argument or point of view.

Example Sentences

"2022, Greg Lukianoff, "The Eternally Radical Idea", Honestly with Bari Weiss at 27m31s:"
"He comes to speak at Brown and he is shouted down so completely, that nobody can hear him and they just call the whole thing off. Now, shoutdowns were not completely unheard of for most of my career..."

Etymology

Deverbal from shout down.

Inflected Forms

shoutdowns (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce shoutdown?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃaʊtˌdaʊn/.
What does shoutdown mean?: An event when someone shouts down (shouts louder than) someone in order to force through an argument or point of view.
Where does shoutdown come from?: Deverbal from shout down.

How to pronounce shoutdown

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