Howler

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  • noun. One that howls.
  • noun. A howler monkey.
  • noun. A laughably stupid blunder.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who howls.
  • noun. A South American monkey of the family CebidÅ“ and subfamily MycetinÅ“: as, the ursine howler, Mycetes ursinus.
  • noun. A calling device employed in telephony in place of the magnetic call-bell; a buzzer.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who howls.
  • noun. Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. That which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
  • noun. A painfully obvious mistake.
  • noun. A hilarious joke.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry
  • noun. a joke that seems extremely funny
  • noun. a glaring blunder
    • Word Usage
    "These decisions would not be conscious; if they were, then the monkeys would be known as howler sociobiologists."
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