Definitions for prowls

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prowls prowl

Spelling: [proul]

IPA: /praʊl/

Prowls is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in prowls (loprsw).

Definitions for prowls

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 prowls

1350-1400; Middle English prollen

Examples for prowls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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