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loud-hailer

British  

noun

  1. Also called (US and Canadian): bullhorn.  a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone

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A video shared on social media, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified, showed a woman warning people via a loud-hailer not to do so, saying such gestures were being encouraged by “outsiders.”

From Reuters Apr. 29, 2022

After warnings by the U.S. vessels through radio and loud-hailer devices went ignored by the Iranian patrol boats, the USS Firebolt warning shots – prompting the vessels to retreat.

From Fox News Apr. 28, 2021

He has been his mercurial self, refusing to confirm if he will fight the MMA loud-hailer Conor McGregor, and instead has trained his verbal guns on Walsh.

From The Guardian May 19, 2017

Certainly, you wouldn’t say his work is exactly throbbing with Christmas cheer: “Will the three wise men please step forward!” shouts one of his solitary naked everyman figures through a loud-hailer into a black void.

From The Guardian Dec. 4, 2016

In person, Kosminsky is adorably mild-mannered; it's almost impossible to imagine him sitting in a director's chair, shouting into a loud-hailer.

From The Guardian Jan. 23, 2011

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