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Noun: honker  hón-ku(r)
  1. A driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound
    "the honker was fined for disturbing the peace"
     
  2. [informal] The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
    - nose, olfactory organ, beak [informal], hooter [informal], nozzle [informal], snoot [informal], snout [informal], schnozzle [informal], schnoz [informal], conk [Brit, informal]
     
  3. Common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
    - Canada goose, Canadian goose, Branta canadensis

Derived forms: honkers

Type of: chemoreceptor, driver, goose

Part of: Branta, face, genus Branta, human face, upper respiratory tract

Encyclopedia: Honker