howler
/HH AW1 L ER0/noun
- 1
That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
- 2
A person hired to howl at a funeral.
- 3
A painfully obvious mistake.
- 4
A hilarious joke.
- 5
A bitterly cold day.
- 6
A person who expresses aggression openly in the form of threats.
- 7
(sometimes figurative) A heavy fall.
- 8
A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler; compare come a cropper).
- 9
A tremendous lie; a whopper.
- 10
A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell".
- 11
A 32-ounce ceramic, plastic, or stainless steel jug used to transport draft beer.
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