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blow-horn

blow-horn is the alternative form of blowhorn.

Meaning of blowhorn

Noun

blowhorn (plural blowhorns)

  1. A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.
    • "Pick up your toys" takes a parental blowhorn to permeate the brain of a young child.1987 February 11, Jeff Kunerth, “Deaf ear may be best deterrent”, in Orlando Sentinal, page E1

Forms of blow-horn

pluralblow-horns

Questions about blow-horn

What is blow-horn the alternative form of?
Blow-horn is the alternative form of blowhorn.

Words near blow-horn in the dictionary

  1. blow-drys
  2. blow-flies
  3. blow-fly
  4. blow-hard
  5. blow-hards
  6. blow-horn
  7. blow-horns
  8. blow-in
  9. blow-ins
  10. blow-jobber
  11. blow-jobbers

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