Loudhailer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A megaphone or bullhorn. Ireland, UK

    "As Ukrainian forces struggled to hold the flattened city, it was claimed that civilians in captured territory were being deceived into leaving shelters to be bussed out to Russian camps by soldiers wielding loudhailers."

Example

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"As Ukrainian forces struggled to hold the flattened city, it was claimed that civilians in captured territory were being deceived into leaving shelters to be bussed out to Russian camps by soldiers wielding loudhailers."

Etymology

From loud + hailer.

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