hootin' tootin' adjective2 •That makes hooting and tooting sounds.And an old-fashioned hootin’ tootin’ calliope from Sioux Falls. — 1961 •Rowdy; boisterous and noisy.He was the best, hootin’, tootin’ son-of-a-seacook that ever hit a prairie breeze, in spite of this dum foolishness. — 1902