Prowl

Definition: Prowl

Prowl

Noun

1. The act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner).

Verb

1. Move about in or as if in a predatory manner; "The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town".

2. Loiter about, with no apparent aim.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prowl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Prowl

Concealment

Be concealed; Verb: suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush); seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.

Journey

Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.

Pursuit

Verb: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on; (do); engage in; (undertake); set about; (begin); endeavor; court; (request) seek; (search); aim at; (intention); follow the trail; (trace); fish for; (experiment); press on; (haste); run a race; (velocity).

Crosswords: Prowl

Always on the prowl. Looking for something or somebody to kill (The Beast of Yucca Flats; writing credit: Coleman Francis)

And it's me out on the prowl (When I come around; performing artist: Green Day)

Prowl the streets like cats (When the Lights Go Out; performing artist: Oingo Boingo)

Prowl Girls (1968)

Man on the Prowl (1958)

On the Prowl 4 (2001)

Back On the Prowl 3 (1998)

On the Prowl Again (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Boys on the Prowl (reference)

• Cats Prowl at Night (reference)

• Constable on the Prowl (reference)

• Living to Prowl (reference)

• Lucia in Love / Lion on the Prowl (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Wildlife on the Prowl (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• On the Prowl (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Raptors on the prowl.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "prowl": be on the prowl ♦ on the prowl ♦ prowl after ♦ prowl around ♦ prowl car. Additional references.

Beginning with "prowl": prowl-boys, prowl-car.

Ending with "prowl": man-prowl, mid-prowl.

Albanian

vij rrotull (circle, compass, court, fly around, gallivant, make love, mill, putter, spark, woo), sillem vërdallë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏طاف خلسة (stalk), ‏جوس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

търся плячка, дебнене (espial), дебна (ambush, be on the lurk, be on the prowl, mouse, shadow, skulk, slink about, sneak, stalk, trail, watch, waylay). (various references)

Chinese 

四处寻觅. (various references)

Czech

potulovat se (gad about, hover about, ramble, range, roam, rove, skulk, stroll, tramp, vagabond), slídit po, èíhat na (lie in wait for, watch for). (various references)

Farsi 

پرسه زدن (Knockabout, Ramble, Roam, Rove, Scamp, Swan), پرسه , تکاپو (Roam, Search), تلاش (Effort, Endeavor, Muss, Quest, Scramble), سرقت (Larceny, Lift, Robbery, Theft, Thievery), جستجو (Disquisition, Hunt, Probe, Quest, Research, Rummage, Search), درپی شکارگشتن . (various references)

Finnish

vaania (lie in ambush, lurk). (various references)

French

rôder. (various references)

German

streifzug (brief survey, expedition, foray, raid, ramble), streifen (binding, braid, brush, brush against, brush past, film, graze, kiss, line, panel, pink, range, rasher, ray, roam, roam about, scrape, shave, strap, streak, strip, stripe, tab, tape, tape back, tape down, tape up, thread, to streak, to stripe, touch, touch lightly, touch upon, wander, wrapper), schleichen (crawl, creep, sidle, skulk, slink, slunk, sneak, steal, tiptoe, to skulk, to sneak), herumtreiben (gad, rove about, to gad), durchstreifen (wander). (various references)

Greek 

περιφέρομαι προσ αρπαγή, αναζήτηση λείασ, τριγυρίζω (go about, knock about, look round, mill, saunter, wander). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשוטט (gallivant, hang about, loiter, meander, mooch, perambulate, range, roam, rove, straggle, traipse, wander), לשחר לטרף (quest for pray). (various references)

Hungarian

portyázás (incursion, prowling), kószálás (dawdling, ramble, rambling, ramblings, roam, roaming, rove, rovingness, saunter, stroll). (various references)

Indonesian

berkeliaran (gad). (various references)

Italian

il vagare in cerca di preda, cerca di preda, aggirarsi (hover, wander). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

彷徨う (to knock around, to loiter, to prowl, to putter), 彷徨く (to knock around, to loiter, to prowl, to putter), 付け狙う (to keep watch on, to prowl after). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さまよう (to knock around, to loiter, to prowl, to putter, to roam about, to wander about), うろつく (to knock around, to loiter, to prowl, to putter), つけねらう (to keep watch on, to prowl after). (various references)

Manx

shelg (chase, hunt, prey, pursuit, quarry, run, shoot, spleen, the field, venery), rouailley (confusion, delerium, deviousness, incoherence, mix up, rambling, rave, wander), rouail (ramble, rove, roving, straying, wander, wandering). (various references)

Pig Latin

owlpray.(various references)

Portuguese

perambular (perambulate, rove, walk, wander), deambular (ramble, roam, rove, saunter). (various references)

Romanian

maşinã a poliţiei (prowl car). (various references)

Russian 

рыскать (yawed), мародерствовать (maraud, pillage), идти крадучись (slink). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tumarati (gad about, loiter, lounge, maunder, moon, roam, saunter, wander), krstariti (cruise, sweep). (various references)

Spanish

rondar (hang about, hang around, haunt, patrol). (various references)

Swedish

stryka omkring (hover, tramp). (various references)

Turkish

sinsice dolaşmak (skulk, sneak about), kolaçan etmek (pry about, spy out, walk about), fırsat kollamak (bide one's time, skulk, wait for an opportunity). (various references)

Ukrainian

крастися (creep, leer, lurk, skulk, sneak), обшукувати (beat, ransack, rummage, search), мародерствувати (maraud, pillage), мародер (marauder, prowler, resurrectionist), блукати (divagate, moon, ramble, roam, rove, walk, walk around, wander). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự đi vơ vẩn, sự đi lảng vảng. (various references)

Welsh

herwa (raid, scout). (various references)

grassatur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prowl": prowled, prowler, prowlers, prowling, prowls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prowl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aprow, perow, Perowe, Prahl, prawl, prew, priw, proal, proaw, probl, proil, prol, prool, propl, Proulx, prowd, prowe, prowle, prown, prowy, pruw, prw, rowl, sprowl. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: plow, prow.

-2 letters: lop, low, owl, pol, pow, pro, row, wop.

-3 letters: lo, op, or, ow, wo.

+1 letter: plower, prowls.

+2 letters: plowers, prowled, prowler.

+3 letters: moldwarp, pilewort, poleward, powerful, prowlers, prowling, ropewalk, slopwork, walloper, wordplay.

+4 letters: flowerpot, moldwarps, pewholder, pileworts, plowshare, polywater, powerless, ropewalks, slopworks, swordplay, wallopers, whirlpool, willpower, wordplays, workplace.

+5 letters: flowerpots, multipower, palmerworm, pewholders, plowshares, polywaters, powderless, powderlike, powerfully, ropewalker, spleenwort, swordplays, whirlpools, willpowers, workpeople, workplaces, worshipful.