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howler any large New World monkey of the genus Alouatta, inhabiting tropical forests in South America and having a loud howling cry howler [′hau̇l·ər] (communications) In telephone practice, an associated unit by which the test desk operator may connect a high tone of varying loudness to a subscriber's line to call the subscriber's attention to the fact that the phone receiver is off the hook. (electronics) An audio device used to warn a radar operator that signals are appearing on a radar screen. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But, this being ``24,'' there are also the requisite howlers and hyperbole. The unrelenting howls of outrage against Pinochet's alleged crimes might be more convincing if the howlers were not so obviously blind to the proven crimes of the favored dictators of the left, and were not so monomaniacally obsessed with punishing one of the very few leaders of the past century who stood up to the communists' global revolution--and won. We have become a culture of hooters and howlers who egg on bad behavior. |
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