👃 A large nose 🪿 A Canada goose 📢 A honking sound 🚗 A horn user

honker

8.6

A person who presses a car horn loudly many times

noun
/ˈhɔŋkər/

Informal

: claxonero

Each time the light turned green, the honker beside me sounded his horn in frustration.

Examples

Grab them by the honker!

The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
Here come the honkers already.

Desperate Living (1977)
MARY: Go along, Honker.

The Secret Garden (1993)
The honker repeatedly pressed the horn as he drove through traffic.
During the parade, the honkers filled the streets with a chorus of car horns.

Synonyms

tooter

vshonker

2 7.2

A person or device that blows a short sharp sound with a horn

is louder and repeats blasts rather than making brief single sounds

squawker

vshonker

7.5

An animal or person that makes a loud harsh noise

is specific to vehicle horn sounds and often repeats loudly

Surface Forms

honker singular

honkers plural

Morphology

honker = honk (transparent) = honk + er

Standard agent nominalization: someone who honks (a horn).

Etymology

Honker meaning a person who honks a car horn is just the verb 'honk' plus the agent -er, so a honker is someone who makes their horn 'honk'.