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plural roarers
One who roars. examples
(archaic) One of a group of young men who would carouse in taverns, then pick brawls on the street for entertainment.
(archaic, slang) A broken-winded horse. quotations
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 […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book (please specify |book=I to VIII)