Word info

tannoy

Speech parts

1. tannoy - Noun

2. tannoy - Verb

Meaning

tannoy (plural tannoys)

(Britain, colloquial) A public address system.

tannoy (third-person singular simple present tannoys, present participle tannoying, simple past and past participle tannoyed)

(Britain, transitive, intransitive) To transmit, or communicate with, by means of a public address system.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Customers should not worry about entertainment as there is Turkish music blasting through the bus's original tannoy system as they tuck-in. Source: Internet

Staff at the station were in cahoots with O’Sullivan and agreed to play “their song” James Blunt’s ‘You Make Me Better’ over the tannoy as the train pulled in. Source: Internet

I kid you not, on one occasion, he was paged over the tannoy by his secretary. Source: Internet

'The official line from the pilot on the tannoy has been "security incident". Source: Internet

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