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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which roars.
  • noun Specifically— A noisy, riotous person; a roaring boy or girl. See roaring, p. a. [Old London slang.]
  • noun One who shouts or bawls.
  • noun A broken-winded horse. See roaring, n., 2.
  • noun Same as bull-roarer.
  • noun A gas-well from which, a large quantity of gas flows noisily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, roars.
  • noun A riotous fellow; a roaring boy.
  • noun (Far.) A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2.
  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The barn owl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who roars.
  • noun archaic One of a group of young men who would carouse in taverns, then pick brawls on the street for entertainment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice

Etymologies

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roar +‎ -er

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