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foghornfog‧horn /ˈfɒɡhɔːn $ ˈfɑːɡhɔːrn, ˈfɒːɡ-/ noun [countable]  - As a kid I would lie awake listening to the foghorns.
- It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away, raising its hands to its mouth.
- Just then a foghorn sounded right clear.
- Mainland anxieties clog my throat, bleating foghorns fill my ears.
- Maybe it's because they sound like a goat rammed down a foghorn.
- These were filled with images of street scenes, of clattering cable cars and the sound of the foghorns on Alcatraz.
- To the accompaniment of foghorns and buoy bells, beside a crackling fire, l slowly eat my dinner.
- When he wasn't here he thought we might fall ill or something, so he installed the foghorns.
1a loud horn on a ship, used in fog to warn other ships of its position2a voice like a foghorn informal a very loud unpleasant voice |