Talkie
//ˈtɔːki// noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a movie with synchronized speech and singing wordnet
- 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."
Antonyms
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More examples"Tom called Mary on a walkie talkie."
Etymology
Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.
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