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Owl

nouncommon in dialogue

A player or fan of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA player or fan of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

Etymology

Named from the Owlerton stadium where they used to play.

Forms

plural
Owls
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).