the horn

noun

US slang

: the telephone

When he heard there was trouble, he got on the horn to the police.

Examples of the horn in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Honking the horn led to words being exchanged between the two drivers, followed by gunfire, the station says. — Mark Price july 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026

There was some solid back-and-forth in the first frame, but Costa seized the momentum late in the frame, hurting Durden just before the horn. — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

This seems to affect the shape of the crack, which in complex fluids looks like the horn of a trumpet and in simple fluids looks like a crack moving through glass, the researchers found. — Rohini Subrahmanyam, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2026

Teach children to honk the horn and/or turn on the hazard lights. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026

Rhymes for the horn

• adorn
• airborne
• blackthorn
• broomcorn
• buckhorn
• buckthorn
• careworn
• firstborn
• foodborne
• forborne
• forewarn
• forlorn