sound truck

noun

a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.

Origin of sound truck

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby sound truck

sound spectrogram, sound spectrograph, sound stage, sound symbolism, sound system, sound truck, sound wave, sound-and-light, sound-and-light show, soundalike, soundboard

Example sentences from the Web for sound truck

  • A sound-truck in a city, competing with all the traffic noises, will turn no more than fifteen watts of electricity into noise.

    Creatures of the Abyss |Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for sound truck

sound truck

noun

US and Canadian a motor vehicle carrying a public address system also called (in Britain and certain other countries) loudspeaker van