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vuvuzela

Best crossword clue

"Loud stadium horn"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /vuːvuːˈzɛlə/Sorted aeluuvvzStarts with VEnds with A1 clues
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Definitions

  1. A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.

Word origin

Borrowed from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

Used in a sentence

  • When the Manchester United squad walked through the arrival gates at Durban International yesterday, most players heard a vuvuzela for the first time.
  • I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.
  • For some, the vuvuzelas herald the country’s piercing emergence from the forced racial hush of apartheid.

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