Definitions
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- noun countable Plural form of
earphone . - noun plurale tantum
Headphones ; apair of smallloudspeakers intended to be worn with one speaker inside eachouter ear or covering all or part of theear .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She picks up her watch and slips it over her wrist, reels out the earphones from the stick clipped to her belt and puts them in, clipping them into the booster sockets in her earrings so her lenses can pick up the video signals.
Archive 2005-02-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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She picks up her watch and slips it over her wrist, reels out the earphones from the stick clipped to her belt and puts them in, clipping them into the booster sockets in her earrings so her lenses can pick up the video signals.
What Is Style? Hal Duncan 2005
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She picks up her watch and slips it over her wrist, reels out the earphones from the stick clipped to her belt and puts them in, clipping them into the booster sockets in her earrings so her lenses can pick up the video signals.
Archive 1999-01-01 Hal Duncan 1999
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She picks up her watch and slips it over her wrist, reels out the earphones from the stick clipped to her belt and puts them in, clipping them into the booster sockets in her earrings so her lenses can pick up the video signals.
Scraps Of Vellum Hal Duncan 1999
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It had an eye visor, broken off rather quickly, and stamped tin earphones.
Harry Harrison: SF Grand Master « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009
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It had an eye visor, broken off rather quickly, and stamped tin earphones.
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I think the dude with the earphones is the MacGruber director.
MacGruber Viral Video? Or An Unfunny Wannabe SNL Short? « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Pandora.com is still working for me as I write this, but I assume that the sounds coming through my earphones are the last sounds of a dying industry.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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Coming through the earphones were the sounds of rustling bed linens, of bodies readjusting, of Pinkie moving close to his naked wife and caressing the skin dusted with talcum powder from a silver-capped jar.
Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997
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The earphones are the ones that sit in your ears which I find them to be pretty comfortable.
bilby commented on the word earphones
Pimped.
September 30, 2009