Definitions for prowl

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prowl prowl

Spelling: [proul]

IPA: /praʊl/

Prowl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in prowl (loprw).

Definitions for prowl

noun

1. act of prowling.

Idioms

1. on the prowl, in the act of prowling; searching stealthily:

verb (used with object)

1. to rove over or through in search of what may be found:

verb (used without object)

1. to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.

Origin of prowl

1350-1400; Middle English prollen

Examples for prowl

Is John Galliano on the prowl for redemption against his former employer, LVMH?

Now to find a lodgment for the night, and then to prowl round for a house.

“You have sexual predators that are on the prowl,” she said.

Who, when on the prowl at a bar, likes to say, “Oh, I work in the EOB”?

"Let's prowl around and see what other Hallowe'eners are doing," proposed Dick.

Sebright, bent double, circled slowly on a prowl of minute inspection.

Cooke describes Joplin as being “always on the prowl and vocal about it.”

When we returned from that prowl into the forest, we found the inn dark.

This was a fundraiser for the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., and they were on the prowl.

They continued to prowl round the tent, hunger-mad and desperate.