walkie-talkie
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈwɔːki ˈtɔːki/
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walkie-talkie
- In the emergency drill, every team member was equipped with a walkie-talkie for clear communication.
- use a walkie-talkie
Policeman, you left your walkie-talkie in my house.
- Policeman, you left your walkie-talkie in my house.
- The guerrillas, they all had icon radios, you know, very simple, like walkie talkies essentially, right?
- So the car would come up and they would go on the walkie-talkie like, yeah, yeah, I'm done.
- And the next person who sat down for critique, her grandfather had invented the walkie-talkie.
- So something that has been happening is that batteries go like empty in seconds when it's like walkie talkies that are supposed to last for days.
- And so this the skill of using walkie talkies and manually adjusting the grid, it's no longer a skill that anybody's taught.
- I I have one of our walkie talkies from Firefly.
- All of a sudden, the walkie-talkie starts to go.
- We had coffee cups and we had a walkie-talkie.
- But I think it's that they're sensitive to cell phone signals and radio signals and TV and walkie talkies and all the other crap that's flying through the air right now.
- And so he at one point, you know, took the, the, the walkie-talkie says it's not cool you guys all get to talk on the walkies, but I don't.
- But but a punch in the face, a punching of ribs, hit him with a cosh, hit him with a walkie-talkie.
Examples
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Here's a walkie-talkie so we can secretly communicate when I make it inside.
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If, we could borrow a couple of walkie-talkies, I could assist from the monitor.
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as soon as they left the room, i hit the walkie-talkie and put everything into play.
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All of a sudden, the walkie-talkie starts to go.
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So I showed him the walkie-talkie.
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Do you have a radio or walkie-talkie?
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Logan was quite interested in using a walkie-talkie and decided he wanted to give it a try.
Academic text (2013) -
"We had to have little walkie-talkies to talk to each other," says McHardy.
Academic text (2006) -
One of the guards holds a walkie-talkie to his mouth with his free hand, emitting static.
Fiction book (1996) -
The shelters kept contact with one another with walkie-talkies, checking and rechecking their status, maintaining readiness.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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7.9
A small handheld radio used to talk with others over short distances
A small radio people carry to talk with each other
Antonyms
How Far
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2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Walkie-talkie comes from a playful English way of joining walkie ('walk') and talkie ('talk') to make a small, friendly name. That's why a walkie-talkie is a small, portable radio that lets people 'walk' and 'talk'—in other words, speak to each other over short distances while moving.