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shout
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shout

To yell or scream via e-mail. It is WRITING WITH ALL CAPITAL LETTERS TO MAKE A POINT instead of using asterisks and underscored words which are considered a gentler way to emphasize something.


shout
Informal Brit, Austral, and NZ
a. a round, esp of drinks
b. one's turn to buy a round of drinks


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The most obscene thing about Jerry Springer isn't the poor lost souls who share their horrible secrets with the world, it's the audience that sits there and hoots and howls and begs for more or, on the other extreme, shouts down the guests, preventing them from explaining themselves.
When a transsexual male forces his way into the few private spaces women may enjoy and shouts down their objections and bombards the women who win not accept him with threats, he does as rapists have always done.
 
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