A breathy hooting or honking call uttered by a chimpanzee, typically in a series rising in a screaming crescendo and tailing off with quieter calls; a series of such calls.
verbˈpantˌhuːt
no objectOf a chimpanzee: to utter pant-hoots.
Origin
1960s. From pant + hoot 1980s; earliest use found in Scientific American. From pant-hoot.
Definition of pant-hoot in US English:
pant-hoot
nounˈpantˌhuːt
A breathy hooting or honking call uttered by a chimpanzee, typically in a series rising in a screaming crescendo and tailing off with quieter calls; a series of such calls.
verbˈpantˌhuːt
no objectOf a chimpanzee: to utter pant-hoots.
Origin
1960s. From pant + hoot<br>1980s; earliest use found in Scientific American. From pant-hoot.