the horn
noun
US slang
: the telephone
When he heard there was trouble, he got on the horn to the police.
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There’s the horn and the turn signal and not much else.
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Thomas Lake, CNN, 10 June 2024
Get ready to hear the horn of Helm Hammerhand sound in the deep!
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
Their lives are punctuated by the horn of the water tanker.
—Sameer Yasir Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Around the horn • Orioles 2011 first-round draft pick Dylan Bundy retired from MLB this winter, the 31-year-old pitcher told MASN’s Roch Kubatko.
—Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
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Thomas Lake, CNN, 10 June 2024
Get ready to hear the horn of Helm Hammerhand sound in the deep!
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
Their lives are punctuated by the horn of the water tanker.
—Sameer Yasir Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Around the horn • Orioles 2011 first-round draft pick Dylan Bundy retired from MLB this winter, the 31-year-old pitcher told MASN’s Roch Kubatko.
—Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for the horn
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“The horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20horn. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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