WordNet
n. a device on an automobile for making a warning noise [syn: automobile horn, car horn, horn, hooter]
Usage examples of "motor horn".
With its bell-shaped muzzle, it looked more like an antiquated motor horn than a firearm.
The breeze drew through them, bearing the chirp and coo of sparrows and pigeons that nested in the eaves, and now and then the sound of a motor horn from the square below, rising out of and sinking back into a hollow rumble of feet in the corridor below and on the stairs.
He chuckled and honked one of her buttocks like an old-time motor horn.
It seemed no more than a few seconds later that he woke from the tantalising dream, sprung from sleep by the sound of a motor horn.
In the first were Nick, Susy and the luggage of the whole party (little Nat's motor horn included, as a last concession, and because he had hitherto forborne to play on it).
He sighed with momentary relief when an unfamiliar motor horn honked outside the drive.
She had reached the scene where she was telling Sarah, in a very weak voice of course, that if she would swear that she had never heard her, Mary Ann, tell a lie in her life shed speak to the Holy Family for her when she got up to Heaven, when the loud honk-honk of a motor horn made her swing round, and there was her da and Mr.
But young Nat, appealed to by Nick on the ground of their common manhood, was induced to forego celebrating the event on his motor horn (the very same which had tortured the New Hampshire echoes), and to assert his authority over his juniors.