Definitions
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- noun UK, colloquial a
public address system
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- noun a loudspeaker
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seemed like a place that gave monomaniacs a tannoy: so little space to say so little, Facebook for an older wastrel.
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There is the noise of the tannoy and the enticing ambience of the outside world.
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The same thing happened at work this afternoon when resuming a podcast I'd been listening to at the gym, in competition with the usual sound system, a second music source outside, and frequent tannoy announcements about new classes.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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The tone of the announcements made over the tannoy on my US Airways flights.
nique sa mère 2008
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Luggage that went astray every time (then being expected to tip the delivery guy when it was dropped off the next day) and yes - just like you, some of the surly announcements over the tannoy, by jaded, well-past-there-useby staff.
unexpected 2008
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The tannoy loud speaker rumbles into life with atmospheric music and the crowd falls silent.
What a Way to Spend Easter: Which Way to the Crucifixion? 2010
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The tannoy loud speaker rumbles into life with atmospheric music and the crowd falls silent.
Virginia M. Moncrieff: What a Way to Spend Easter: Which Way to the Crucifixion? 2010
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The competition took place in the school hall, but so that all the other children could hear it was played through the tannoy in each classroom.
The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010
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I love that you used the term “the tannoy” to refer to what we would call the PA (short for Public Address).
unexpected 2008
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The tone of the announcements made over the tannoy on my US Airways flights.
unexpected 2008
bilby commented on the word tannoy
"He was even on the receiving end of a grand-slam, Ian Young smashing a homer into the Old Pavilion with the bases loaded. It earned him some merciless ribbing from Jonny Gould, the Channel Five sports factotum doing sterling work on the tannoy."
- Andy Bull, 'Home runs and home truths in Trescothick's benefit bash' in guardian.co.uk, 6 Oct 2008.
October 7, 2008