blowhorn

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1. 1

   A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds…

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

   • "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.
   • [F]rom atop enormous snow banks they sang civil rights-era songs and waited for the speakers from inside to come outside to deliver their speeches via blowhorn.

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