(British) a loudspeaker

Usage examples of tannoy.

The train was running a little late, a muffled voice over the Tannoy told her, so she took herself off to the buffet.

The voice of Frank, the manager, entered the tea room through the Tannoy speaker.

He flipped a switch to the tannoy which stood alongside a photograph of his wife.

She growled in frustration, the bass notes of her voice vibrating the tannoy diaphragms.

Bancroft was wired with internal tannoy, like everyone else at Suntouch House it seemed.

I surmised, already hearing the specs-rich vocabulary that Carnage used come tumbling out over the tannoy, the killing ring drenched in focused white light, the roaring, surging crowd in the darkened seating, the smell of sweat and bloodlust.

When the destination of the approaching train was announced over the Tannoy, Lucinda Marsh quietly addressed her child.

We stand around in the coach station in silence, inhaling diesel fumes and listening to the tannoy.

There was the call to readiness on the Tannoy and the revving up at the dispersal points.

I could hear the words echoing from tannoys in the compartments sternward.

I ran two seconds of feedback through the tannoys as an attention signal, then announced, "Five minutes to liftoff.

His voice was soft, but the PA system's software corrected to boom the words at full audible level from the tannoys in all the compartments.

Thirty of us were crowded into the forward compartment, and his words echoed on the tannoys to the remainder of the crew.

The tannoys thundered her words an instant out of synch with her lips.

So when his friends hear the results on a Saturday, on national radio and television, or on the tannoys of other League grounds, they think, simply, “Neil Kaas” when they hear the Luton score.