Definition of megaphone
: a cone-shaped device used to intensify or direct the voice
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They were met with small groups of counterprotesters with megaphones.
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When the trio arrives to a hilltop mansion with several flights of concrete steps to access the kitchen service entrance, a kitchen maid uses a megaphone to shout her ice order down to them.
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The protesters held signs and addressed the gathering crowd through a megaphone while the wind whipped up and dark grey clouds began to roll in.
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Adrian Zarata, who helped organize the event, found his life-size version of Pistol Pete's hat and marched around the celebrations screaming into his megaphone.
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Ross said before stepping back to hold her little red-and white striped megaphone out to amplify the voice of anyone who wished to speak.
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To the Democrat Party, too, CNN is their megaphone.
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Now employees are grabbing their own social-media megaphones to push personal agendas.
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Protesters then marched in spirited unison around Centennial Park, each chant first being shouted into a megaphone and then repeated by the growing crowd.
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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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