Noisemaker

I got a noisemaker as a Purim gift.

Women will gather at Filenes with pots and pans as noise-makers and march to Deak-Perera, a firm which sells the South African gold coin.

Before long, the unsuspecting salesman was earnestly pitching him "the quietest noisemaker on the market."

The noisemakers spread from soccer to the N.B.A. and other sports.