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• n  a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration

• Each noisemaker let his output drop by half when he switched from solitude to a group of four.
• Pye once ordered the wholesale arrest of noisy loungers in a corridor outside his courtroom, had to reverse himself when it developed that the loudest noisemaker was a fellow .
• No such underwater transducer (noisemaker) had been built before, but the very first units were successful.

News & Articles

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• WATCH: Burglary suspect brings Chihuahua to restaurant break-in
  SAN ANTONIO -- Police say a man broke into a Mexican restaurant and stole money from the jukebox, although it was a different noisemaker that led to his arrest. San Antonio police said the suspect forced his way into a restaurant in the 3400 block of Roosevelt Avenue around 1 a.m. Monday. Store surveillance video shows the man and his Chihuahua inside the business. They then leave the store ...
  July 17, 2013 - KENS 5 San Antonio
• Auctions: Versace's Exorbitant Palace Heads to Auction Sept. 17
  Huge news about Miami's storied Casa Casuarina, the real estate noisemaker famed for (1) its past as Gianni Versace's party palace (or a "one-time Xanadu of boys in teeny bathing suits," as Curbed Miami most accurately describes), (2) old...
  July 17, 2013 - Curbed
• Barking accomplice: Burglary suspect brings dog to restaurant break-in
  SAN ANTONIO -- Police say a man broke into a Mexican restaurant and stole money from the jukebox, although it was a different noisemaker that led to his arrest. San Antonio police said the suspect forced his way into a restaurant in the 3400 block of Roosevelt Avenue around 1 a.m. Monday. Store surveillance video shows the man and his Chihuahua inside the business. They then leave the store ...
  July 15, 2013 - KENS 5 San Antonio

Quotes

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• Kent Desormeaux in ESPN
  The whip is not a whip,Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux said during the Keeneland fall meet. "It's a noisemaker."