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Definitioner

Substantiv

1. That which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
2. A painfully obvious mistake.
3. A person hired to howl at a funeral
4. A hilarious joke.
5. A bitterly cold day
6. A heavy fall, literally or figuratively
7. A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler, e.g. "Our hansom came a howler"; compare: come a cropper)
8. A tremendous lie
9. A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell"
10. A calamity howler is "one that makes dismal predictions of impending disaster"