walkie
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈwɔːki/
- Informal
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walkie-talkie
- Do you have a radio or walkie-talkie?
- a walkie-talkie
Wow, that's pretty instant walkie-talkie tech is just reliable.
- Wow, that's pretty instant walkie-talkie tech is just reliable.
- And they would tell us over the walkie talkies, OK, we're opening the doors.
- You know they're building trains, they're building walkie talkies.
- 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.
- Policeman, you left your walkie-talkie in my house.
- I I have one of our walkie talkies from Firefly.
- All of a sudden, the walkie-talkie starts to go.
- The guerrillas, they all had icon radios, you know, very simple, like walkie talkies essentially, right?
- We had coffee cups and we had a walkie-talkie.
- 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.
- 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.
- But but a punch in the face, a punching of ribs, hit him with a cosh, hit him with a walkie-talkie.
- And so this the skill of using walkie talkies and manually adjusting the grid, it's no longer a skill that anybody's taught.
Examples
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Besides his sidearm, the Bosnian also carried a small walkie-talkie clipped to his belt.
Fiction book (1996) -
Here's a walkie-talkie so we can secretly communicate when I make it inside.
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Hit us on the walkie if you see anything out of the ordinary.
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Call him on the walkie.
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And they would tell us over the walkie talkies, OK, we're opening the doors.
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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) -
Policeman, you left your walkie-talkie in my house.
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There was also a portable walkie-talkie and some kind of radio transmitter.
Fiction book (1990) -
The shelters kept contact with one another with walkie-talkies, checking and rechecking their status, maintaining readiness.
Fiction book (1993) -
You can use your walkie to communicate with the team during the hike.
Synonyms
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2.5
A small handheld radio that lets people talk to each other over short distances
A small radio people carry to talk with each other
Antonyms
Compounds
48
2.5
A small handheld radio that lets people talk to each other over short distances
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
walkie = walkie-talkie (semi-transparent) = walk + ie
The relation is a simple clipping: 'walkie' is shortened from 'walkie-talkie', which denotes the device.
Etymology
The word walkie in the radio sense comes from the name walkie-talkie, where walk means 'to move on foot' and talk means 'to speak'. Because you can carry this small radio while you walk and use it to talk to someone nearby, people shorten the name to walkie, meaning a handheld two-way radio.