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Talkie

//ˈtɔːki// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film. dated, historical, informal

    "On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie."

  2. 2
    a movie with synchronized speech and singing wordnet
  3. 3
    A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung. dated, historical

    ""[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts."

Etymology

Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.

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