loudhailer

See also: loud hailer

English

A loudhailer

Etymology

From loud +‎ hailer.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

loudhailer (plural loudhailers)

1. (UK, Ireland) A megaphone or bullhorn.
   • 2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 May 2023:

     It's a grotesque, misleading smear on a diverse group of individuals – a bit like claiming all Muslims are terrorists (which, coincidentally, the guy beside them is currently doing through a loudhailer).

   • 2022 March 24, Daniel Boffey, “Ukraine sinks Russian ship as Moscow accused of forcible deportations from Mariupol”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 April 2022:

     As Ukrainian forces struggled to hold the flattened city, it was claimed that civilians in captured territory were being deceived into leaving shelters to be bussed out to Russian camps by soldiers wielding loudhailers. […] Russian soldiers with loudhailers were instead said to be driving around parts of the city claiming that the city of Odesa has fallen and that other havens for refugees were now rejecting fleeing people.

Synonyms

• blowhorn