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Definition of "megaphone" []

  • A funnel-shaped device used to direct and amplify the voice. (noun)
  • To transmit (a message) or speak through or as if through a funnel-shaped voice amplification device. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "megaphone" in a sentence
  • "Those include 62-year-old Geoffrey Strand, a financial adviser who has been yelling into his megaphone from the sidelines at nearly every game for the past 32 years."
  • "Does the buggy have a built in megaphone a la Northants? on May 22, 2009 at 3: 52 pm Hogday"
  • "Megan Kennedy is called megaphone because she doesn't need one."