tannoy
IPA: tˈænɔɪ
noun
- (Britain, colloquial) A public address system.
verb
- (Britain, transitive, intransitive) To transmit, or communicate with, by means of a public address system.
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Examples of "tannoy" in Sentences
- The tone of the announcements made over the tannoy on my US Airways flights.
- There is the noise of the tannoy and the enticing ambience of the outside world.
- The tannoy loud speaker rumbles into life with atmospheric music and the crowd falls silent.
- I love that you used the term “the tannoy” to refer to what we would call the PA (short for Public Address).
- It seemed like a place that gave monomaniacs a tannoy: so little space to say so little, Facebook for an older wastrel.
- The competition took place in the school hall, but so that all the other children could hear it was played through the tannoy in each classroom.
- Luggage that went astray every time (then being expected to tip the delivery guy when it was dropped off the next day) and yes - just like you, some of the surly announcements over the tannoy, by jaded, well-past-there-useby staff.
- The same thing happened at work this afternoon when resuming a podcast I'd been listening to at the gym, in competition with the usual sound system, a second music source outside, and frequent tannoy announcements about new classes.
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