Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Nautical A horn for sounding warning signals in fog or darkness, used especially on ships, buoys, and coastal installations.
- noun A booming, insistent voice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A horn used on board a vessel to sound a warning signal to other vessels in foggy weather.
- noun A sounding instrument for warning vessels off shore during a fog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A horn that emits a loud low-pitched sound, used on ships navigating in a fog, to warn other ships of their presence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A very
loud low -pitched horn , used especially inlighthouses and on largeboats .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone
- noun a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships
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Examples
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i am constantly reminded of that little chickenhawk feller who used to appear in foghorn leghorn cartoons.
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So I write here today once again, simply trying to be a "foghorn" in the midst of the religious smokescreens that are thrown up daily by the modern day "ministers" of God.
SOUL REFUGE soulrefuge 2010
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When foggy preaching ambiguously handles the topic of social suffering, toughminded clergy bring a foghorn, exposing the policies and practices that, in part, contribute to disproportionately high levels of joblessness, foreclosures and poor health in black and brown communities.
Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy Andrew Wilkes 2011
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On Giglio, the head waiter's parents knew to listen for the foghorn, local newspaper Il Tirreno reported, saying that the head waiter had placed a call to his father earlier Friday, telling him to look for the ship at 9:30 p.m.
Italian Captain: 'We Abandoned the Ship' Stacy Meichtry 2012
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When foggy preaching ambiguously handles the topic of social suffering, toughminded clergy bring a foghorn, exposing the policies and practices that, in part, contribute to disproportionately high levels of joblessness, foreclosures and poor health in black and brown communities.
Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy Andrew Wilkes 2011
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IN his dressing room last week John Goodman stood up, emitted a long, blaring foghorn blast and then announced in a loudspeaker voice, “Now docking. ...”
Sunday Reading 2009
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How dare Rush Limbaugh, the principal foghorn of the Right-wing noise machine, denounce them as "freeloaders?"
Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin Bernard Weisberger 2011
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The bishop has been forced into a humiliating retreat after endorsing a booklet by Stephen Green, the foghorn from Christian Voice.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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The rise of the Tea Party owes a great deal to Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV, the foghorn of extremism that changed the nature of political discourse.
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You can barely hear the music over the carping, which appears to be getting louder as her debut album approaches: a cynic might say that's just as well, given the recent Saturday Night Live appearance in which she demonstrated her uncanny mastery of the vocal style deployed by Ian Brown during the Stone Roses' later years – she honked like the foghorn on Portland Bill lighthouse.
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