claxon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claxon
Naturalized English spelling
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
By now we have all “heard delirium in a claxon, / Seen revelation lit on chromium.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
I had a kind of Austin Powers claxon: “Wanh-anhh! We can’t do that, because he’d run the gag dry.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2022
But now their sound was an enervating jangle, a burglar-alarm claxon.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2012
An army deuce-and-a-half rolled by, claxon blaring, three dozen faces peering from the back and five more Vietnamese sitting on the hood.
From Time Magazine Archive
The claxon sounded stridently, and the inflectionless voice of the robopilot said: "Sixty seconds."
From Attrition by Krenkel, Roy G.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
