give two hoots

See give a hoot.

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give two hoots (third-person singular simple present gives two hoots, present participle giving two hoots, simple past gave two hoots, past participle given two hoots)

1. (chiefly US slang) To care about; to place value on something.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:care

• Used mostly in the negative.

• “not give two hoots”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.