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  • noun A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.

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Examples

  • Regardless, all you will have to do is strip it bare and pontificate with a blowhorn in front of the offending establishment.

    Blogging for PETA 2009

  • Regardless, all you will have to do is strip it bare and pontificate with a blowhorn in front of the offending establishment.

    Blogging for PETA 2009

  • He says he is picking up many of the techniques, such as using a roll iron to make cylinders and using a blowhorn stake to hammer metal into different shapes.

    Students dive into mystery of Civil War submarine Hunley 2010

  • Bush stood on the 9/11 rubble and had his spontaneous, blowhorn moment that bathed America in patriotic and rhetorical colors of red, white, and blue.

    Archive 2009-07-01 News from Mad Plato 2009

  • Bush stood on the 9/11 rubble and had his spontaneous, blowhorn moment that bathed America in patriotic and rhetorical colors of red, white, and blue.

    CRIMES SECRETS AND PUNISHMENTS OF WISE WHITE MEN News from Mad Plato 2009

  • Admittedly, Moore's schtick of going up in person to a major corporation and yelling at them through a blowhorn doesn't have the same impact as his attempts at meeting Roger Smith in "Roger and Me" had; it's getting old.

    Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story Movie Trailer | /Film 2009

  • Mikey Weinstein is my kind of hero, when I hear all the blather from the media and the Bush blowhorn about a "Nation of Heroes" I get sick.

    Legal missile launched from Kansas, aimed at Pentagon Armageddeon Wingnuts! Michael Caddell 2007

  • I'll bring the blowhorn, the sarcasms and the binoculars.

    Unexpected Treasures 2006

  • T.ere is no such thing as a coincidence. microCrap is copying the iT.nes, iPhone model to a T. Funny their guy is named Kindel, sounds like Kindle, they cannot even get a blowhorn with an original name.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

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