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