noisemaker
noun
a 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.
noisemaking
-
a word derived from
noisemaker.
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
She was largely unfazed by rubber bullets, paintballs and noisemaking devices and had been captured and relocated twice in recent years because of similar conflicts, the zoo said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Billed as a “weekend retreat in Southampton” for social parties, in reality it is probably more like a “royal noisemaking nuisance,” at least to the pesky neighbors in Water Mill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2016
No sooner had modern noise-absorbing buildings been built, he writes, “than their inhabitants proceeded to fill those interior spaces with newly available noisemaking technology.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2012
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
