megaphone
verbEtymology From mega- + -phone.
1
To use a megaphone; to speak through a megaphone.
megaphone
nounUK /ˈmɛɡ.əˌfəʊn/ · US /ˈmɛɡəˌfoʊn/
Etymology From mega- + -phone.
1
A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.
2
Figuratively Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.
- If Pack does become head of the BBG, critics fear that he will turn Voice of America and the other BBG networks into a megaphone for Trump.2018 June 6, Arwa Mahdawi, “Michael Pack: the Bannon ally critics fear will become Trump's global propagandist”, in The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- megaphonic, megaphonist, pissaphone
- Hypernyms
- loudhailer, blowhorn