earphone
Americannoun
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earphones
plural
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a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
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Usually earphones. a headset; headphone.
noun
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In 2022, for example, CBP found live centipedes concealed inside earphone cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024
Small portable radios were common, but they didn’t sound good and usually came with just a small earphone that went in one ear.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 20, 2024
Samsung, which is the biggest maker of Android phones, recommends using a cotton bud to get moisture out of the earphone jack and charging port.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Nicolas Krumm, a journalist for the Chilevision channel, was speaking about the rise in robberies in the local area when the feathered fiend took his earphone.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2022
His sister says his name more urgently, and he presses the earphone to her ear.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
By 2014, tourists were improvising with items like scrunchies, ribbons and earphones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
The coroner added that "increasingly, more people wear earphones and are therefore less aware of their surroundings".
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
“I was back in New York, and I was walking down the street and a guy looked up at me, pulled earphones out of his head and said, ‘Hey … you’re on my iPod!’
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2025
Each participant wore earphones to hear both their taps and their partner's taps, and they had to anticipate their partner's movements.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
Maddie uncurled the gripping earphones and microphone and passed her headset to the pretty little blond wireless operator, who adjusted the phones to fit her head.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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