Crossword clues for noisemaker
noisemaker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
noisemaker \noisemaker\ n. Any device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or device that produces a great deal of noise, especially one used in a celebration or sporting event. 2 A device comprising a handle with a ratchet at one end, with the ratchet end contained within a box that serves as an echo chamber, so that swinging or moving the device causes the ratchet to rotate within the box, creating a series of loud clicking sounds
WordNet
n. a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration
Wikipedia
A noisemaker is something intended to make a loud noise, usually for fun. The word may refer to:
- Pea whistle
- Air horn, a device composed of a pressurized air source coupled to a horn, designed to create an extremely loud noise
- Fireworks, such as firecrackers, bottle rockets, bang snaps and others
- Party horn, a paper tube often flattened and rolled into a coil, which unrolls when blown into, producing a horn-like noise
- Ratchets, an orchestral musical instrument played by percussionists. See also derkach and rapach.
- Siren (noisemaker)
- Vuvuzela, a plastic horn that produces a loud monotone note
- the head joint of the recorder which is used as a noisemaker
Noisemakers are popular with children as toy musical instruments. They can be perfectly included in loud rhythm bands.
Usage examples of "noisemaker".
It was as if the noisemaker wanted her in that particular spot of undergrowth, and had meant to put her there, one way or the other.
Manchester was hurled sideways by a close, violent explosion, A noisemaker had barely saved them.
They set a small minefield and placed a noisemaker within it that sounds exactly like a Tango schnorkeling her diesels.
He starts going one way, then turns hard the other, leaves a knuckle in the water, and probably a noisemaker, too, right in the middle of it.
The torpedo chased the noisemaker, running another three minutes before it ran out of fuel.
Along with the noisemaker, it created an enormous disturbance in the water.
As I walked back down the corridor to the stairs I heard something, exceptionally clear and rhythmical, the sound that imitates consenting pain, the sound of a child riding the brink of its sneeze, I heard something telling me that Eileen was a noisemaker who had slipped her gag.
She covered her ears and laughed when a couple stopped to blow a noisemaker at her.
Fear drove away his numbness, and he checked the lifesigns of the noisemaker against those stored in his tricorder.
The fourth noisemaker also cast a shadow in the Force - not a pleasant shadow, but not Yuuzhan Vong.
The first had been decoyed and the other one appeared to have passed the noisemakers and was gradually closing in a stern chase.
Ben Steel held his depth until the weapon was drawn into one of their noisemakers and exploded.
Wayne Newell heard the report that his second torpedo was running correctly, he fired noisemakers and gave the order to dive to eight hundred feet.
He also put noisemakers in the water, but they would be useless shortly.
Florida dove and fired first noisemakers to mask his ship, then simulated decoys to attract homing torpedos away from her.