Meaning

A person, creature or thing that growls..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person, creature or thing that growls.
2. (historical, slang) A horse-drawn cab with four wheels.
3. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
4. (informal, Canada, US, Australia) A kind of jug, often with a handle, used to carry beer and preserve carbonation.
5. (dialect, UK, Yorkshire) A pork pie.
6. (British, slang) The vulva.
7. (US, dialect) A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits.
8. A device for checking electrical equipment for short circuits etc.

Example Sentences

He had evidently studied the driver of a London growler, and produced a good sound readable type of man.

The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham.

Lew pulled his socks from a jacket pocket, grabbed his own shoes, and together they proceeded to the street and into a growler, and were off.

A great ‘growler’ iceberg was sighted this afternoon at a distance of approximately half a mile; the size of a large London house, more or less.

As the cruise ship Explorer was picking its way through the Antarctic sea ice, it hit what experts believe was a "growler" - a huge iceberg shorn from the Antarctic ice shelf.

[…] their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale […]

This container was a round lidded tin with a handle and was colloquially called a growler. […] to get daddy or mommy a growler of beer, which was, by the way, approximately a quart.

Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.

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