roar
verb (used without object)
to utter a loud, deep cry or howl, as in excitement, distress, or anger.
roarer
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a word derived from
roar.
Example Sentences
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Hank Williams Jr. has a roarer going on over at a big spread near Nashville.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he died of cancer of the stomach in 1885, the old roarer left his ranch in good hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bee County sheriff cottoned to this abstemious rip-tail roarer and made him his chief deputy in 1941.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’m a Salt-river roarer; I love the wimming and I’m chock full of fight.”
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
