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prowl


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noun

Definition of PROWL

: an act or instance of prowling
— on the prowl
: in the act of prowling; also : in search of something <his fourth wife had just left him, and he was on the prowl again — Mary McCarthy>
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Examples of PROWL

  1. a prowl through the bookshop

First Known Use of PROWL

1803

Rhymes with PROWL

cowl, dowel, foul, fowl, growl, howl, jowl, rowel, scowl, towel, trowel, yowl

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