Definition of megaphone
: a cone-shaped device used to intensify or direct the voice
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Today’s campaigners can harness more effective megaphones, such as social media and journalistic exposés.
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In the resort city of Cabo San Lucas, where the storm would make landfall late that night, police officers raced through drenched and blustery streets with megaphones, warning everyone remaining to leave.
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When marginalized or less-empowered voices leverage a moral megaphone to remedy systemic injustice — when hate suffers consequences — those social repercussions help bend the arc of the moral universe in the right direction.
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The protests began small at first, and then grew louder and larger, as protesters brought megaphones, the Globe and Mail reported.
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Thousands of people were lined up outside of Fair Market when a person with a megaphone informed them the concert was canceled.
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With a megaphone in hand, the first student called for 17 seconds of silence to honor the victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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Back across the street, lawyer and civil rights activist Faya Ora Rose Toure called the crowd to attention with a megaphone.
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The abuse includes deliberately tripping a girl and holding a small boy down to yell in his face with a megaphone.
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First Known Use of megaphone
1878
Definition of megaphone
: to transmit or address through or as if through a megaphone
: to speak through or as if through a megaphone
First Known Use of megaphone
1901
MEGAPHONE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of megaphone for English Language Learners
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: a cone-shaped device used to make your voice louder when you speak through it
MEGAPHONE Defined for Kids
Definition of megaphone for Students
: a device shaped like a cone that is used to direct the voice and increase its loudness
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