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howler
[ hou-ler ]
noun
- a person, animal, or thing that howls.
- a mistake, especially an embarrassing one in speech or writing, that evokes laughter; a very humorous mistake or a funny blunder.
- Informal. something that makes a piercing and often prolonged noise, as an alarm.
howler
/ ˈhaʊlə /
noun
- Also calledhowler monkey any large New World monkey of the genus Alouatta, inhabiting tropical forests in South America and having a loud howling cry
- informal.a glaring mistake
- (formerly) a device that produces a loud tone in a telephone receiver to attract attention when the receiver is incorrectly replaced
- a person or thing that howls
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Example Sentences
The latest is maybe the biggest howler yet, bigger than even the ad that mistook Duke basketball players for UK Wildcats.
His portrait of Izzy Yanay, a partner in the highly regarded Hudson Valley Foie Gras, is a howler.
I remember, some years ago, how merrily you used to laugh about the "calamity-howler," whose habitat at that time was Kansas.
The old man was alive during the telephone call from the Grand Central, and dead when the howler was put on for the first time.
The telephone call at five minutes past twelve, and the howler put on soon afterward, checks up.
She came a fearful howler over a book which she herself has read, to my knowledge, within the last fortnight.
A reiterated word of the convulsive howler on the dock had stuck in the Tyro's mind.
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