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growler noun- a bowel movement US
- — Judi Sanders, Faced and Faded, Hanging to Hurl, p. 18, 1993
- a fart UK
- — Bodmin Dark, Dirty Cockney Rhyming Slang, p. 18, 2003
- in the language of barbershop quartets, a strident bass singer US
- — American Speech, p. 298, Autumn–Winter 1975: “The jargon of barbershop”
- the lowest gear in a truck US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 78, 1971
- a largely submerged iceberg ANTARCTICA, 1912
- We began to strike growlers with the regularity of a radio frequency. — Jennie Darlington and Jane McIlvaine, My Antarctic Honeymoon, p. 125, 1956
- — Bernadette Hince, The Antarctic Dictionary, p. 161, 2000
- the vagina AUSTRALIA, 1999
- Why do Women Always Display Their Growlers? (Need a female perspective). — answers.yahoo.com, 16 July 2007
- a prison cell used for solitary confinement US
- — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 502, 1984
- beer, the dregs of a cask IRELAND
- He first put on his bowler, then he buttoned up his trousers, And he whistled for a growler and he said “My men, Take me up to Monto, Monto, Monto ...” — Take Me Up to Monto, 1999
- a wrestler US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 12, 1945
- a hotel’s activity log US
- In the indictments lodged against bellboys in the hotel “growler,” the rough equivalent of a ship’s log, one word appeared over and over – caught. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 356, 1953
- a beer can US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 108, 1949
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