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  • n  a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships
  • n  a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone

  • Hitching up his overalls before a crowd of 5,000, he launched into a lusty, ear-piercing "whooo," then followed with a foghorn of a tune that sailed clear into the next county.
  • A rusty foghorn? A voice? Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation of the legs? Words occasionally can be made out, like raisins in .
  • Also, always keep talking until the moderator is forced to stop you with a foghorn blast or by reaching for an elephant gun under the desk.
News & Articles

  • In Transit Blog: A Symphony at Sea
    Bands, ships and a lighthouse will perform the Foghorn Requiem, a lament for a fading sound, on the North Sea on Saturday.        
    June 19, 2013 - New York Times
  • A Symphony at Sea
    Bands, ships and a lighthouse will perform the Foghorn Requiem, a lament for a fading sound, on the North Sea on Saturday.
    June 19, 2013 - New York Times
Quotes

  • Danny Green in Sydney Morning Herald
    The chicken that Mundine is talking to is of the same mentality as 'Choc',Green said. "While he's talking to a caged chicken, I'm like Foghorn Leghorn, still crowing about being the WBA light-heavyweight champion of the world. He obviously...
  • Mike Leach in Los Angeles Times
    Wes was this little, short guy who had his chest puffed out like the chicken hawk on that old Foghorn Leghorn cartoon,Leach said. "And by the third game, he was one of our starting receivers."
  • DeLisha Milton-Jones in Washington Post
    I actually heard the birds chirping this morning as opposed to the foghorn,DeLisha Milton-Jones said. "There are definitely more smiling faces in the locker room."

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