Definition of "catcall"

catcall¹

/ˈkætkɔl/

noun
plural catcalls
1. A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
2. A shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
3. (historical) A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.
  Quotations
  At what period was the custom of blowing catcalls at the theatre discontinued?
  1823, The Drama, Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, page 289
verb
third-person singular simple present catcalls, present participle catcalling, simple past and past participle catcalled
1. To make such an exclamation.
  Quotations
  When Susan Seligson thinks about breasts — and, since she’s a DDD-endowed (touché) middle-aged woman who’s been groped and catcalled her whole life, that’s often, too — she thinks about ... her own DDDs.
  2007 April 1, Ada Calhoun, “Up Front”, in New York Times‎

catcall²

/ˈkætkɔl/

noun
plural catcalls
1. (programming) In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
  Quotations
  Java does not let you make members more private than they are in parent classes, so has no catcall problem for changing availability. Thus to avoid catcalls with export problems, you should adopt a once-public, always-public policy.
  1999, Ian Joyner, Objects Unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++?, page 244