foghorn
- 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.