throat microphone

American  

noun

1. a microphone worn around the throat and actuated by vibrations of the larynx, used when background noise would obscure the sound of speech, as in an airplane cockpit.

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throat microphone British  

noun

1. Also called: throat mike.  a type of microphone that is held against the throat to pick up voice vibrations

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Etymology

Origin of throat microphone

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

The operating surgeon wears a throat microphone so that he can explain every cut and stitch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two loudspeakers atop the building picked up his words from a throat microphone and flung them into the night wind.

From Time Magazine Archive

A throat microphone picked up the words and transmitted them to the ears of the man in the screen.

From Anything You Can Do ... by Garrett, Randall

He wore a throat microphone for sending out messages, and for receiving calls had a thin silver wire running to the vibrating bone in his ear.

From Danger in Deep Space by Glanzman, Louis