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sound truck

noun

a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.

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sound spectrogram, sound spectrograph, sound stage, sound symbolism, sound system, sound truck, sound wave, sound-and-light, sound-and-light show, soundalike, soundboard

Origin of sound truck

First recorded in 1935–40
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Examples from the Web for sound truck

  • A sound-truck in a city, competing with all the traffic noises, will turn no more than fifteen watts of electricity into noise.

    Creatures of the Abyss|Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for sound truck

sound truck

noun

US and Canadian a motor vehicle carrying a public address systemalso called (in Britain and certain other countries) loudspeaker van
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012