mike stew

noun

Unpleasant background noise generated from the sound of a microphone.

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Meanings

nounmike stew (uncountable)
  1. uncountableUnpleasant background noise generated from the sound of a microphone.

    But the tin ear of the mike picks up all sounds, without selection, in an indiscriminate hodge-podge which sound men call "mike stew."

    1950, Dore Schary, Case History of a Movie, page 139
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