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Phrase(s): howl at someone or something
1. Lit. [for a canine] to bay at someone or something. • The dog howls at me when I play the trumpet. • The wolves howled at the moon and created a terrible uproar. 2. and hoot at someone or something Fig. to yell out at someone or something. • The audience howled at the actors and upset them greatly. • We hooted at the singer until he stopped. 3. Fig. to laugh very hard at someone or something. • Everyone just howled at Tom’s joke. • I howled at the story Alice told.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs