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View synonyms for headphones

headphones

/ ˈhɛdˌfəʊnz /

plural noun

  1. an electrical device consisting of two earphones held in position by a flexible metallic strap passing over the head Informal namecans


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Example Sentences

You can see him in the video, jamming his headphones into the pocket of his black trenchcoat.

The crowd is an assortment of reporters, posse members, film students, and very skittish men sporting huge AOL headphones.

I used to sneak the DVD up to my room at night and watch it with headphones in the dark.

To keep the child quiet, the adults slap a pair of headphones on the young Wookie as the boy watches a Boba Fett cartoon.

“Some people bring their kids to the London ones, with sound-proof headphones,” she said.

As his watch told him that Tom must be nearing the bottom he seated himself by the switchboard, headphones clamped over his ears.

He reached for the com key and a second later tore the headphones from his appalled ears.

They had brought the two-step amplifier and proposed to use that for most of their listening in, rather than the headphones.

He took off his headphones and clamped them on to the phonograph that stood on a table near by.

Inside his flying helmet, the doctor wore a pair of headphones which were connected to a box on the floor before him.

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