1. Common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
   "Honkers flew overhead in their distinctive V-formation";
   - Canada goose, Canadian goose, Branta canadensis
    
2. A driver who causes their car's horn to make a loud honking sound
   "the honker was fined for disturbing the peace"
    
3. [informal] The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
   "he has a cold in the honker";
   - nose, olfactory organ, beak [informal], hooter [informal], nozzle [informal], snoot [informal], snout [informal], schnozzle [informal], schnoz [informal], conk [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: honkers

Type of: chemoreceptor, driver, goose

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

Encyclopedia: Honker