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noun

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

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Origin of sound truck

First recorded in1935–40

Words nearby sound truck

sound spectrograph, sound stage, sound symbolism, sound system, soundtrack, sound truck, sound wave, Souness, Sounion, Sounion Head, soup

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Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.
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“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.
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Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
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She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor.
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Bells were pealing and tolling in all directions, and the air was filled with the sound of distant shouts and cries.
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Miss Christabel blushed furiously and emitted a sound half between a laugh and a scream.
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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

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