locker-room
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- adjective
- /ˈlɑːkər ruːm/
- Offensive
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vulgar
- The coach warned the players to keep their locker-room talk respectful while in public.
- locker-room talk
- locker-room banter
- locker-room jokes
I'll tell you, my first few years, because of the space I was in, I fell into, I wouldn't call it locker room talk.
- I'll tell you, my first few years, because of the space I was in, I fell into, I wouldn't call it locker room talk.
- Who's the biggest locker room asshole in AW today?
Examples
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Every once in a while, somebody recognizes me and we talk locker-room stuff.
Fiction book (1992) -
I don't want to be a locker room joke, so... don't tell anybody, okay?
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But only if you ease up on the locker room talk.
Fiction book (1998) -
Only if you promise to ease up on the locker-room talk, okay?
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If you believe everything you hear in a locker room, you'll never wise up.
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Some readers took Dr. Greenfield's comments as a sort of locker-room humor and thought he was merely writing to his audience.
Blog text (25) -
It was something that we would discuss on a regular basis, mainly with nervous banter, locker room banter.
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It was locker-room talk.
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Brendan, Joe, and I had gotten into a locker-room kind of humor, and at the center of it was a mistake I had anticipated Tom would make.
Academic text (1995) -
His jokes are often considered locker-room humor, filled with coarse and crude language.
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Etymology
Locker-room comes from places in sports where players change and keep their things: locker means a 'small box you can lock' and room means a 'place'. Because people in that private place often speak freely and tell rude jokes, locker-room now describes language or humor that is rough or 'not polite'.