Usually means: Loud, prolonged cry of cat.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. yowl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yowl: Merriam-Webster
  3. yowl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yowl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yowl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yowl: Vocabulary.com
  7. yowl: Wordnik
  8. yowl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. yowl: Wiktionary
  10. yowl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. yowl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yowl: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yowl: Dictionary.com
  14. yowl (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Yowl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. yowl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. yowl: Rhymezone
  18. Yowl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. yowl: FreeDictionary.org
  20. yowl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. yowl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yowl: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yowl: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yowl)

▸ noun:  A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) Utter a yowl.
▸ verb:  (transitive) Express by yowling; utter with a yowl.

Similar:
wrawl, howl, hollering, caterwaul, yammer, holloa, roar, bellow, holla, hollo, more...

Types:
howl, scream, wail, bawl, cry, more...

Adjectives:
loud, long, pitched, low, angry, sharp, plaintive, terrible, sudden, like, little

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Similar:
wrawl, howl, hollering, caterwaul, yammer, holloa, roar, bellow, holla, hollo, more...

Types:
howl, scream, wail, bawl, cry, more...

Adjectives:
loud, long, pitched, low, angry, sharp, plaintive, terrible, sudden, like, little

Colors:
    charcoal,     midnight blue,     slate gray,     deep purple,     obsidian, more...



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