growlers

Noun

growler (plural growlers)

1. A person, creature or thing that growls.
2. (historical, slang) A horse-drawn cab with four wheels.
   • He had evidently studied the driver of a London growler, and produced a good sound readable type of man.1883 October 16, London Daily Telegraph
3. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
   • 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.2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 152
4. (Australia, Canada, US, informal) A kind of jug, often with a handle, used to carry beer and preserve carbonation.
   • […] their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale […]1940, Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh, act 1
5. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal) A pork pie.
   • Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.2008 August 22, Christina McDermott, The Guardian
6. (UK, slang) The vulva.
   • On our first meeting he'd asked me if I dyed my hair. I told him I did and his follow up^([sic]) question had been the much under rated^([sic]), "What colour's your growler then?"2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel, Troubadour Publishing, pages 125–6

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