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m_‮f@discuss.onlineM to Commons Content Party@discuss.onlineEnglish · 11 days ago

Word of the day - Oct 27: dead cat

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dead cat n 🔊

  1. (figurative, cinematography, sound engineering) A furry windscreen; a furry cover placed over a microphone to muffle the sound of wind.

☞ Today is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, a day observed by UNESCO to raise awareness of the importance of preserving recorded sound and other audiovisual media.

Illustration for dead cat

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A dead cat (sense 2) on a boom microphone

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/October_27

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