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roarers

roarers is the plural of roarer.

Meaning of roarer

Noun

roarer (plural roarers)

  1. One who roars.
  2. (archaic) One of a group of young men who would carouse in taverns, then pick brawls on the street for entertainment.
    Synonyms:
    roaring boy
  3. (archaic, slang) A broken-winded horse.
    • He had never before been so much struck with the fact that this unfortunate bay was a roarer […]1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 23, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please...

Phrases with roarers

Questions about roarers

What is roarers the plural of?
Roarers is the plural of roarer.

Words near roarers in the dictionary

  1. roared back
  2. roared off
  3. roared on
  4. roared out
  5. roarer
  6. roarers
  7. roarest
  8. roareth
  9. roarin'
  10. roaring
  11. roaring ahead

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