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- noun A
noise -making device that blasts compressed air through a horn
Etymologies
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Examples
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Early during the final round, the airhorn that would usually warn golfers off the course if there is an approaching thunderstorm sounded three times.
2008 U.S. Amateur champ Lee wins Johnnie Walker Classic 2009
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If they threw a whomp-whomp or an airhorn in there, it wouldn't be surprising.
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A few weeks later, Kate was noticeably absent when William sounded an airhorn at Falmouth Harbor to welcome their friend Oliver Hicks home after the bearded adventurer had rowed solo from North America to the Isles of Scilly.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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(E.G. “But she said -” He started, but was cut off by the airhorn.) – ‘Said Cara’ ends that concept, thus requiring a period rather than a comma.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » David’s Second Review Forum 2009
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Wednesday Magic District: In which I am sneaky like an airhorn.
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A few weeks later, Kate was noticeably absent when William sounded an airhorn at Falmouth Harbor to welcome their friend Oliver Hicks home after the bearded adventurer had rowed solo from North America to the Isles of Scilly.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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She is more like a dog airhorn: maybe the dogs like it, but it annoys the crap out of the non-dogs.
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It felt like someone had blown an airhorn right in my ear.
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In my script he would have been spared death by the intervention of a radical hunt saboteur (the hero!), who only a millisecond before the murdering hunter pulled his trigger, blew his airhorn and frightened Bambi's father off to safety.
Riding Shotgun With a Bowhunter: An Anti-Hunting Odyssey. 2009
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In my script he would have been spared death by the intervention of a radical hunt saboteur (the hero!), who only a millisecond before the murdering hunter pulled his trigger, blew his airhorn and frightened Bambi's father off to safety.
Riding Shotgun With a Bowhunter: An Anti-hunting Odyssey. 2009
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