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Noun

bullhorn (plural bullhorns)

• (chiefly US) A megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.
  • ✤ Synonyms: blowhorn, (Britain) loudhailer, megaphone
  • ✤ Iʼll press the trigger, and with a loud squeal of ear-piercing feedback, the bullhorn buzzes to staticky life.¹
  • ✤ [Mark Zuckerberg] didn’t found Facebook to manipulate elections; Jack Dorsey and the other Twitter founders didn’t intend to give Donald Trump a digital bullhorn.²
  • ✤ CNews, the news network created by the billionaire Vincent Bolloré, topped the ratings in May by giving a new bullhorn for right-wing views on crime, immigration, climate and Covid.³

Etymology

From bull +‎ horn, attested since the 1950s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA: /ˈbʊlˌhɔɹn/

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Footnotes

1. 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 59: ↩

2. 2018 July 1, Katrina Brooker, ““I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets”, in Vanity Fair ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

3. 2021 September 14, Norimitsu Onishi, “A Fox-Style News Network Rides a Wave of Discontent in France”, in The New York Times ‎${}^{[2]}$, →ISSN: ↩