Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun howler

3 senses of howler

Sense 1
belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot -- (a joke that seems extremely funny)
       => joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape -- (a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point")

Sense 2
howler monkey, howler -- (monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry)
       => New World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian -- (hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails)

Sense 3
howler -- (a glaring blunder)
       => blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo -- (an embarrassing mistake)