howler
About 0.14 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
- noun A person hired to howl in mourning at a funeral.
- noun A painfully obvious mistake.
- noun A hilarious joke.
- noun A bitterly cold day.
- noun A person who expresses aggression openly in the form of threats.
- noun A heavy fall.
- noun A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler; compare come a cropper).
Our hansom came a howler.
Similar words
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Often followed by
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Word family
howlers
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