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Tannoy|ˈtænɔɪ|
Also tannoy.
A proprietary name for electrical apparatus concerned with sound reproduction and amplification. Now used generally, esp. to denote a form of public address system.
1928Trade Marks Jrnl. 18 Apr. 605 Tannoy 488,958. Electrical Instruments and Apparatus for use in connection with Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony and Electrical Conductors... Guy Rupert Fountain, trading as the Tulsemere Manufacturing Co... 28th February 1928. 1942Ibid. 21 Oct. 433/1 Tannoy. Electric signalling and alarm apparatus, telephone systems.. television..radio apparatus,..sound reproducing and sound amplifying instruments..; public address apparatus; electric amplifiers. 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral ii. 36 He was lighting his pipe..when the Tannoy sounded metallically above his head. 1954G. Smith Flaw in Crystal xx. 215 The tannoy blared, telling the passengers to go aboard. 1958M. K. Joseph I'll soldier No More ix. 158 A tannoy-loudspeaker on the deck brought them the hourly news bulletins. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation i. 11 Above them the hoarse voice of the muezzin crackled through the Tannoy, calling the faithful to prayer. 1977G. Scott Hot Pursuit iii. 34 A call in the Tannoy system drowned my words. 1980Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 19/3 They were furious after missing a train because of a wrong announcement on the station tannoy.
Hence as v. trans., to call (someone) by public address system; intr., to use a public address system; ˈtannoyed ppl. a., transmitted by public address system; ˈtannoying ppl. a.
1966Punch 20 Apr. 564/1 The President spoke, and his tannoyed voice boomed back off the blighted trees and the peeling architecture. 1970B. Turner Another Little Death ii. 14 He held the line while Chief Inspector Rillie was Tannoyed out of the basement. 1976Times 24 Apr. 4 The Portuguese Socialist leader arrives behind a convoy of tannoying cars and almost bounces into the crowd. 1978Times 2 Oct. 4/3 A great crowd..being ordered around by Tannoyed voices. |