tweeter
[twee-ter]
- a small loudspeaker designed for the reproduction of high-frequency sounds.
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Origin of tweeter
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When news of the smuggled skulls broke over the wires early last November a Tweeter from Mogadishu replied: Shhh keep it quiet!
Whoever this tweeter was, s/he has been hearing the refrain since the day s/he got into the game.
Their narrative holds that it somehow magically ended—perhaps not in 1955, as our tweeter suggested, but certainly in the 1970s.
To catch the “real” tweeter, Weiner explained that he had hired an Internet security firm to investigate.
Read the best of his live chat here, from his oppenness to 'more smart cuts' to his praise for one tweeter's purple hair.
tweeter
- a loudspeaker used in high-fidelity systems for the reproduction of high audio frequencies. It is usually employed in conjunction with a woofer and a crossover network
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Word Origin
C20: from tweet
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Word Origin and History for tweeter
n.
"loudspeaker for high frequencies," 1934, agent noun from tweet.
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