WordNet
loud-hailer
n. a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier [syn: bullhorn]
Usage examples of "loud-hailer".
The loud-hailer hallooed, and a laser boltin massive overkillcrisped them to cinders.
I pulled myself to my feet and climbed the companionway to the bridge, where the captain, peering through a pair of night-glasses, was rapping out orders through an electrical loud-hailer which amplified his clicking, harshly accented speech (it was an Ivory Coast dialect with which I was unfamiliar).