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how ler

  • n  a joke that seems extremely funny
  • n  monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry
  • n  a glaring blunder

  • In the footsteps of howler monkeys and endangered black jaguars, they follow mapped plots in the forest, drive stakes into the ground and measure out circles with diameters of 13 .
  • As a boy, he was James Howlett: little howler, or wolf boy names are destiny in superhero stories.
  • What's surprising is that Goldfrapp (who started out as the wordless howler on Tricky's finest albums) and musical partner Will Gregory also have a sublime pop sensibility.
News & Articles

  • Adventurous Travel in Costa Rica
    THE PROBLEM WITH MUDDY, medium-brown river water isn't the color, which looks right and true in the Costa Rican jungle, under a canopy of green rustling with howler monkeys and chatty with birds. The problem is that you can't see Saddam Hussein.
    June 17, 2013 - Bloomberg
Quotes

  • Paul Casey in Independent Online
    I feel very lucky to be ahead of 'Howler',Casey told the tour's website. "He has had injury and fitness problems for much of the year. If he hadn't I think David would have been so far ahead by now it would all be over."
  • Paul Jewell in Times Online
    The referee's made a complete and utter howler,Jewell said.
  • Steve Bruce in Sportinglife.com
    Yes, he committed a terrible howler against Man City. But individual mistakes happen,noted Bruce. "I've taken him aside and told him we all make them - but, please, not any more! I saw Titus produce an unbelievable display at Arsenal. He...

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