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talkie

[ taw-kee ]

noun

, Older Use.


talkie

/ ˈtɔːkɪ /

noun

  1. informal.
    an early film with a soundtrack Full nametalking picture


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Word History and Origins

Origin of talkie1

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; talk + (mov)ie

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Example Sentences

Damien Chazelle’s latest showstopper stars Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie as Hollywood legends trying to navigate the industry as it transitions from silent movies to talkies.

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Each walkie talkie has 22 channels with 121 privacy codes, is compatible with any FRS GMRS two way radios, and has access to all NOAA hazards weather channels and alerts.

This pair of walkie talkies are designed to provide reliable push-button communication when you need it most, the radio has 22 channels, 28 pre-programmed privacy channels, silent operations, and multiple power settings to conserve battery life.

Clifford Howard, the Washington author who wrote “Purity,” worked on a few more films but none after the rise of the talkies, Bone said.

Back in England, Hitchcock made the transition from silents to sound with Blackmail, Britain's first talkie.

Back at police headquarters, Chief of Police Michael Floore Sr. ran out of the detective bureau, barking into a walkie talkie.

A 36-story tower designed by Rafael Vinoly nicknamed the “walkie-talkie” curves outward as it rises, ungainly and jarring.

Lypsinka—like those gals Garbo and Swanson—would love to have her first name-over-the-title talkie.

But she later said Forde “looked like” the camouflage-clad female home invader barking orders into a walkie talkie.

He dropped the tele-talkie behind the seat and examined the gauge on his oxygen tank.

He traced the circuit to where it disappeared into the oscillator switch, then took the walkie-talkie.

Each security man had been informed by the miniature walkie-talkie he wore.

"Might be relaying messages on from a walkie-talkie or something like that," Buck commented.

What he might have done he was never to know, for a buzzer sounded and Nina moved quickly to a wall-talkie.

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