Meanings
plural bullhorns · alternative bull horn · alternative bull-horn
- USA megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.
Iʼll press the trigger, and with a loud squeal of ear-piercing feedback, the bullhorn buzzes to staticky life.
2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 592 more examples
[Mark Zuckerberg] didn’t found Facebook to manipulate elections; Jack Dorsey and the other Twitter founders didn’t intend to give Donald Trump a digital bullhorn.
2018 July 1, Katrina Brooker, ““I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets”, in Vanity FairCNews, the news network created by the billionaire Vincent Bolloré, topped the ratings in May by giving a new bullhorn for right-wing views on crime, immigration, climate and Covid.
2021 September 14, Norimitsu Onishi, “A Fox-Style News Network Rides a Wave of Discontent in France”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: blowhorn, loudhailer, megaphone
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From bull + horn, attested since the 1950s.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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“bullhorn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bullhorn. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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