noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who roars.
2. 2
   someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice wordnet
3. 3
   One of a group of young men who would carouse in taverns, then pick brawls on the street for entertainment. archaic
4. 4
   A broken-winded horse. archaic, slang

   "He had never before been so much struck with the fact that this unfortunate bay was a roarer […]"

Synonyms

All synonyms

bawlerbellowercrockdoggoathack

Example

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"He had never before been so much struck with the fact that this unfortunate bay was a roarer […]"

Etymology

From roar + -er.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.