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loud-hailer

noun

  1. a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone Also called (US and Canadian)bullhorn
“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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A video shared on social media, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified, showed a woman warning people via a loud-hailer not to do so, saying such gestures were being encouraged by “outsiders.”

From Reuters

After warnings by the U.S. vessels through radio and loud-hailer devices went ignored by the Iranian patrol boats, the USS Firebolt warning shots – prompting the vessels to retreat.

After each heartbreaking petition, Cisneros grabbed her loud-hailer and marched on through the community, imploring locals to vote for change.

Certainly, you wouldn’t say his work is exactly throbbing with Christmas cheer: “Will the three wise men please step forward!” shouts one of his solitary naked everyman figures through a loud-hailer into a black void.

As St Mitten manager, Ferguson used a van with a loud-hailer to tour the working class areas of Paisley, exhorting people to come to matches.

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