roarer
nounEtymology From roar + -er.
1
One who roars.
2
Archaic One of a group of young men who would carouse in taverns, then pick brawls on the street for entertainment.
- He had never before been so much struck with the fact that this unfortunate bay was a roarer […]1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 23, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
- Synonyms
- roaring boy
- Derived terms
- bullroarer