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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A portable device consisting of a microphone attached to a loudspeaker, used especially to amplify the voice.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier

Examples

  • “I wish I had a bullhorn to shout just how tired I am of hearing about how wonderful George W. Bush\'s \'bullhorn moment\ 'was.”

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bullhorn Bullbleep -- James Wolcott

  • “Four more years! 'through a bullhorn from the back of a park, the candidate's wife stopped herself to respond.”

    08/02/2004

  • “(END VIDEO CLIP) BASH: Now, one of the things that some were looking for when the president went down to the region for the first time on Friday was what some call a bullhorn moment.”

    CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2005

  • “Dispersed over about a mile, thousands of anti-war protesters had gathered, but the feeling was more of performance art than protest: tie-died t-shirts were clothing du jour among the aged; chains, spikes, and purple hair the uniform of the young Even as the disparate groups came together, the guy with the bullhorn was the only one chanting, “bring the troops home now” and “no blood for oil.””

    Dal LaMagna: Thousands Protest in D.C...

  • “The bullhorn was a gift for the presidential library.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004

  • “So, when Bush made his cinematically dramatic "bullhorn" appearance on the "pile" of World Trade Center wreckage, his near-dormant presidency seemed to have caught its stride.”

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  • “A distributed 'bullhorn' can happen without the people who brought the equipment even being identifiable, which we like a lot," he continued.”

    Wired: Boomboxes Are Hip Again

  • “Then he had the so-called "bullhorn" moment while touring the wreckage at Ground Zero was praised for capturing the leadership and resolve of what first responders needed to hear.”

    FOXNews.com

  • “A man with a bullhorn shouted a prayer and people said “Amen” and stood up.”

    All the Street’s a Stage

  • “Standing on top of a wrecked fire truck, Bush grabbed a bullhorn to address the rescue crews working feverishly to find any survivors.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

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