"howling" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2023, Wulf Moon, How to Write a Howling Good Story, page 1:",
          "text": "The majority of your audience comes to your tale with one hopeful expectation: Tell me a howling good story.",
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          "ref": "1966, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Regulation of Commuity Antenna Television, page 272:",
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          "text": "Those were days that I had success, for I could see it, and feel it, and taste it, and my patrons caught the contagion and we had a howling success .",
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        },
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          "text": "Boy, what a howling triumph if we should find our way out of here and go walking into Stark House by night !",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Wulf Moon, How to Write a Howling Good Story, page 1:",
          "text": "The majority of your audience comes to your tale with one hopeful expectation: Tell me a howling good story.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "a howling success"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used as an intensifier"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Used as an intensifier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhaʊlɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊlɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "that howls",
      "word": "hurlanta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "howling"
}