Crossword clues for earplug
earplug
- Swimmer's stopper
- Silencer?
- Silencer of a sort
- Din deadener
- Means to close entrance to labyrinth?
- Each listener catches standard British speech - though not with this!
- Old lawman to carry personal protection
- Silencer lawman once put on sawn-off luger!
- Listeners welcome piano as sleeping aid
- Protection against noise
- It protects two protuberances around front of pate
- It keeps out noise
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A piece of protective clothing that is meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the wearer's hearing from loud noises or the intrusion of water. vb. (context transitive English) To fit with earplugs.
Wikipedia
An earplug is a device that is meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the user's ears from loud noises or the intrusion of water, foreign bodies, dust or excessive wind.
Usage examples of "earplug".
From his pocket he pulled out a couple of earplugs that he put in his ears.
Even with the earplugs, Kim was initially bowled over by the cacophony of noise that exploded into the stairwell.
With trembling fingers he plucked out one of the earplugs Jed had given him and pushed in the earphone.
Despite his earplugs, he suddenly could hear a sustained raucous buzz.
Christa fumbled for the earplugs, but the volume was only a small part of her distress: in this crowded hall, the packed adolescent energies crawled like hot spiders across her skin.
When she opened her eyes, even the sight of a demon face on the video screens was tolerable, and, muted by the earplugs, the steadily pulsing rock seemed oddly reassuring.
He looked for the set of earplugs that should have been attached to his seat, intending to drown out the play with music or a soothing waterfall of gentle noise, but found to his disgust that one plug of the set was missing.
A tinny, tiny sound, so faint that he could hear it only intermittently, leaked out into the room from the earplugs of her pocket hifi.
She sat up in her crackling cloak, and with the hand he had touched she reached up to pull her earplugs out.
The earplugs might or might not have been responsible for the fact that Diana slept through the night undisturbed.
He thought about his earplugs, over in the cabinet, but those worked too well for his peace of mind.
I made a note to purchase shin guards and earplugs, not to mention a tranquilizer or two, and a stun gun, should the crowd go wild.
The rest of the strike team put in their own earplugs and waded after the hatchmates, some with blaster weapons in hand, others with lightsabers, some with both.
Mitchell is trying to settle a credit-card dispute on his distinctive cellphone, which is not a headset phone per se but consists of an earplug and a tiny hanging podular thing he holds to his mouth with two fingers to speak, a device that manages to make him look simultaneously deaf and schizophrenic.
His shipmates were two Kubaz who fluted excitedly about the culinary possibilities of pinch beetles and buzzworms, and a mismatched couple who seemed to be some kind of itinerant comedy act, a Kitonak and a Pho Ph'eahian whose canned banter made Mace wish for earplugs.