loudhailer

See also: loud hailer

English

Etymology

From loud +‎ hailer.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

loudhailer (plural loudhailers)

  1. (UK, Ireland) A megaphone or bullhorn.
    • 2022 March 24, Daniel Boffey, “Ukraine sinks Russian ship as Moscow accused of forcible deportations from Mariupol”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      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.

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