megaphone
[meg-uh-fohn]
- a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance.Compare bullhorn.
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- to transmit or speak through or as if through a megaphone.
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Origin of megaphone
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Examples from the Web for megaphone
Contemporary Examples
Gotta have the beret and megaphone if I want people to take me seriously!
Jon Stewart Talks ‘Rosewater’ and the ‘Chickensh-t’ Democrats’ Midterm MassacreMarlow Stern
November 9, 2014
If we want a megaphone to the rest of the world, we must explicitly ask for it by changing that setting ourselves.
Turn that megaphone around and use feedback you receive on the crowdsourcing and social media platforms as consumer feedback.
Boulden says the preachers yelled, “we hope you die from breast cancer” through a megaphone.
Had the word “Jewboys” come from the megaphone of sheriff Bull Connor, that would have been hateful.
Historical Examples
In this hush the megaphone was lifted slightly and dropped, making us all start.
The Shadow WorldHamlin Garland
Then he went to the corner of the office and picked up a megaphone.
In Apple-Blossom TimeClara Louise Burnham
It was the voice of Mr. Isidore screeching upon him through the megaphone.
Brother CopasSir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"Jack Kilmeny will ride Teddy Roosevelt," blared the megaphone man.
The HighgraderWilliam MacLeod Raine
We need some sort of megaphone to enlarge the spirit-voices.
The Tyranny of the DarkHamlin Garland
megaphone
- a funnel-shaped instrument used to amplify the voiceSee also loud-hailer
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Word Origin and History for megaphone
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