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megaphone

[meg-uh-fohn]

noun

  1. a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance.



verb (used with or without object)

megaphoned, megaphoning 
  1. to transmit or speak through or as if through a megaphone.

megaphone

/ ˌmɛɡəˈfɒnɪk, ˈmɛɡəˌfəʊn /

noun

  1. a funnel-shaped instrument used to amplify the voice See also loud-hailer

“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
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • megaphonic adjective
  • megaphonically adverb
  • ˌ𲵲ˈDzԾ adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of megaphone1

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; mega- + -phone
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Najee Gow, who is Black and grew up in Minnesota, arrived downtown Wednesday with a Mexican flag on his back and led the crowd in chants with a megaphone outside the Metropolitan Detention Center.

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Trump and Musk have two of the world's biggest megaphones, and they have now turned them on each other.

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That hands the loudest and largest megaphones to CEOs and their PR flacks and leaves actual citizens with laryngitis from straining to be heard above the profit-making din.

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Will Mejia’s megaphone grow even louder now that actual layoffs are on the table?

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He bellowed through his megaphone at politicians heading into work and became closely associated with dissent against the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

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