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Howler   /hˈaʊlər/   Listen
Howler

noun
1.
A joke that seems extremely funny.  Synonyms: belly laugh, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow.
2.
Monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry.  Synonym: howler monkey.
3.
A glaring blunder.





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"Howler" Quotes from Famous Books



... me, what a howler—pardonable assuredly—but what a howler I had been guilty of! But why should I have doubted what Popof told me, and why should Popof have suspected what the Persians had told him regarding this Yen Lou? There was no reason for our doubting ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne
... came in and slammed the door emphatically shut after him. "She's sure coming," he complained, while he pulled the icicles from his mustache and cast them into the fire. "She's going to be a real, old howler by the signs. What yuh doing, ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower


Words linked to "Howler" :   genus Alouatta, botch, laugh, boo-boo, joke, jest, blunder, bungle, foul-up, thigh-slapper, fuckup, flub, jape, gag, New World monkey, platyrrhine, boner, platyrrhinian, bloomer, pratfall, Alouatta, blooper, howl


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