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honker

noun

Etymology

From honk + -er.

Definitions

  1. One who honks.

    • Elmo flat-out ignored me, and Big Bird was busy flipping off honkers in the traffic jam they'd caused.

  2. A large nose.

  3. A wild goose.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A woman's breast.

    2. Anything impressively large

      Anything impressively large; a whopper.

      • I caught a real honker of a fish.

    3. A loud burst of flatulence.

      • I would have given a million dollars to fart a good loud juicy honker, right then and there […]

    4. The telephone.

      • He supposed Pangborn was around someplace, and pretty soon old Bill Fullerton would get him on the honker and tell him who was back in town. Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here.
      • I kidded him about the length of the call, and he said that he'd also been on the honker with A.R. […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA