Usually means: Loud, shrill wailing like cats.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. caterwaul: Merriam-Webster
  2. caterwaul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caterwaul: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caterwaul: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caterwaul: Vocabulary.com
  6. caterwaul: Wordnik
  7. caterwaul: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. caterwaul: Wiktionary
  9. caterwaul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. caterwaul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. caterwaul: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Caterwaul, caterwaul: Dictionary.com
  13. caterwaul: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Caterwaul (band), Caterwaul: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Caterwaul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. caterwaul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. caterwaul: Rhymezone
  18. Caterwaul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. caterwaul: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. CATERWAUL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. caterwaul: FreeDictionary.org
  22. caterwaul: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. caterwaul: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. caterwaul: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. caterwaul: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caterwaul: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caterwaul: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Caterwaul: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To cry as cats in heat; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To have a noisy argument, like cats.
▸ noun:  A yowling.
▸ noun:  A noisy quarrel.

Similar:
yowl, wrawl, miaul, meow, caut, wail, catcall, Crowl, howl, cat-call, more...

Opposite:
hush, quiet, silence

Adjectives:
variegated, unanimous, big, horrible, lonely, prolonged, quick, high, sudden, loud, awful

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    cyan,     magenta,     electric blue,     neon green,     fiery red, more...
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Similar:
yowl, wrawl, miaul, meow, caut, wail, catcall, Crowl, howl, cat-call, more...

Opposite:
hush, quiet, silence

Adjectives:
variegated, unanimous, big, horrible, lonely, prolonged, quick, high, sudden, loud, awful

Colors:
    cyan,     magenta,     electric blue,     neon green,     fiery red, more...



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