Meaning & use
Vuvuzelas
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Long plastic horns that produce a loud, droning blast, traditionally blown by fans at South African football matches.
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The stadium buzzed with the sound of thousands of vuvuzelas during the match.
Fans lined up outside the stand selling cheap plastic vuvuzelas.
A note on using this word
The word entered global vocabulary after vuvuzelas became a fixture of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, hosted in South Africa.
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stadium horns
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