Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier

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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 2005

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

    08/02/2004 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 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... 2008

  • The bullhorn was a gift for the presidential library.

    CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004 2004

  • The bullhorn was a gift for the presidential library.

    CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004 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.

    End of an Error 2007

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

    Boomboxes Are Hip Again 2004

  • 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 foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011

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

    All the Street’s a Stage 2009

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