Blowhorn

Quick meaning: Blowhorn is a noun meaning A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.

Meaning

A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.

Example Sentences

"Pick up your toys" takes a parental blowhorn to permeate the brain of a young child.

He remembers the sad, droning sound of a blowhorn from a dredge barge, a plea for help as it was swept out to sea.

"We could stand outside with a blowhorn and say you are all sinners but the reality is that doesn't work," Mr Davies said.

I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.

Word Forms

• blowhorns
• blow horn
• blow-horn

Synonyms for blowhorn

Depending on context, synonyms include bullhorn, loudhailer, megaphone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blow-horn, airhorn, bullhorn, aerophone, blowhole, whuff.

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