Sound-boosting gear

The answer

AMPS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AMPS answer page.

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2020. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• AMP (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for AMPS

Every other clue in this collection answered by AMPS, most used first.

• Band boosters - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Elec. units - used 62 times, most recently in 2010
• Sound boosters - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Concert equipment - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Rock blasters - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Rock concert gear - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Concert gear - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Current units - used 20 times, most recently in 2016
• Guitar boosters - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Band aids - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Intensifies, with "up" - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Concert blasters - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Electrical units - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• Rock concert sound boosters - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Fuse units - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Rock band equipment - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Hypes (up) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Units of current - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Concert boosters - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Electrical units: Abbr. - used 11 times, most recently in 1967
• Pumps up the volume - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Audio plug-ins - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Current units, for short - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• Gig gear - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Roadies' burdens - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Rock concert blasters - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Rock concert equipment - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Current measures - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Elec. measures - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Ratchets (up) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Roadie's load - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Roadies' loads - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Concert array - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Cranks (up) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Roadie loads - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Sound-boosting boxes - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Woodstock gear - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Band boxes - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Bandstand boosters - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Fuse measurements - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Sound projectors - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Stereo components - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Units of electrical current - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Word on a fuse - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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• Throat-clearing sound - AHEM, used 180 times
• Scissors sound - SNIP, used 135 times
• High-five sound - SLAP, used 132 times
• Horn sound - TOOT, used 132 times
• Attention-getting sound - PSST, used 120 times

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