The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HYENAS
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More clues leading to the result HYENAS
- Have you ever noticed anxious students? At first, they laugh
- They may laugh at grouchy Ena Sharples’s revelation
- Spotted carnivores with a sense of humour?
- The laughing stock of Africa?
- Sensible youth not dismissed for rearing animals
- Extremely happy and sensible around animals
- Extremely happy and rational over such mammals
- He’s involved with any mistreated animals
- Has she any bubbly for those having a laugh?
- Animals with long laughs outside
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What does HYENAS mean?
HYENAS noun- Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaeninae (genera Hyaena and Crocuta), native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
- (Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.