noisemaking
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a word derived from
noisemaker.
noisemakernouna person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
Example Sentences
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Businesses have installed planters and other noisemaking devices to make staying in front of a storefront inconvenient.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
You can drag them around the campground rather than carry them, thus maximizing their immense plastic-on-gravel noisemaking potential.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2021
His approach on the guitar comprises a mix of atonal, slyly percussive dots and dashes; scattered speckles of notes; and occasional flashes of lyrical beauty, often augmented by electronic effects and extraneous noisemaking devices.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
But hyping up the possibility of a Kaepernick deal without coming anywhere close to committing is nothing if not noisemaking.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2018
We danced until Big Ma told us to stop that noisemaking “like a herd of stampeding hippos.”
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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