growler

Meaning

Noun

• A person, creature or thing that growls.
• A horse-drawn cab with four wheels.
• A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
• A kind of jug used to carry beer (in current usage, a 2-liter or 64-ounce container with or without a handle; sometimes extended to similarly shaped 32-ounce jug, but not bottles).
• A pork pie.
• The vulva.
• A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits.
• A device for checking electrical equipment for short circuits etc.

Origin

• From growl + -er. Sense "jug" is 19th century American slang, of uncertain origin.