bullhorn
noun
bull·horn
ˈbu̇l-ˌhȯrn 
also ˈbəl-
1
: a loudspeaker on a naval ship
2
: a handheld combined microphone and loudspeaker
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A couple hundred of us were all smashed together in this outdoor area, and, in between setups, Michael Stipe would sit up on top of a ladder with a bullhorn and just talk to everybody and answer questions and stuff.
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Jeremy D. Larson, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2025
In a video posted Thursday on the social platform X, Mace referred to the protesters by using an offensive and derogatory slur for transgender people and read the Miranda rule into a bullhorn outside the Capitol Police Department.
—Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
The poster notes items needed for the election: flashlights, computers, radios, batteries, modems, FAX machines, calculators, bullhorns, walkie-talkies, generators and answering machines, among other items.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Behind him, in the rear seat, a young woman with a blond ponytail called to the birds, in German, through a bullhorn.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Jeremy D. Larson, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2025
In a video posted Thursday on the social platform X, Mace referred to the protesters by using an offensive and derogatory slur for transgender people and read the Miranda rule into a bullhorn outside the Capitol Police Department.
—Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
The poster notes items needed for the election: flashlights, computers, radios, batteries, modems, FAX machines, calculators, bullhorns, walkie-talkies, generators and answering machines, among other items.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Behind him, in the rear seat, a young woman with a blond ponytail called to the birds, in German, through a bullhorn.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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bullhorn
noun
bull·horn
ˈbu̇l-ˌhȯ(ə)rn
: a handheld combined microphone and loudspeaker
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