Definition of "banshee" [ban•shee]

• A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. (noun)

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• "If synethesia can't make the cut than my autobiographical ramblings about my life as a mutant banshee from the river styx just won't cut it."
• "The thing that was odd about this scene is that the boyfriend with the shopping cart was gone from view by this time, and when I use the word banshee I'm not indulging in hyperbole."
• ""one wail of a banshee" is going to be in my head all day long."