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View synonyms for talk-back

talk-back

[ tawk-bak ]

noun

, Radio and Television.
  1. a communications system enabling those in the studio to hear control-room personnel through a loudspeaker or headphones.


talk back

verb

  1. to answer boldly or impudently
  2. to conduct a telephone dialogue for immediate transmission over the air
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. television radio a system of telephone links enabling spoken directions to be given during the production of a programme
    1. a broadcast telephone dialogue
    2. ( as modifier )

      a talkback show

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of talk-back1

Noun use of verb phrase talk back
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Idioms and Phrases

Also, answer back . Reply rudely or impertinently, as in She was always in trouble for talking back , or The teacher won't allow anyone to answer back to her . [Second half of 1800s]
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Example Sentences

Then, she brings the talk back to Burger Chef, and the surveying she did in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

As I'm walking, my father is in my ear on a mike so we can talk back and forth.

You know, like the way things happen when you talk to people in real life and they talk back to you.

"Please don't get our talk back where it was before," pleaded Helen, as they stepped out on the porch and Lowell said good-bye.

There was a good deal of talk back and forth, and, in the end, most of those there present remained loyal to Blaine.

Never was a man so grateful as Mr. Bixby was: because he was brim full, and here were subjects who would talk back.

"Ye'll be tired afore ye git home," he persisted, encouraged by finding that she would talk back at him.

You could utter a word and it would talk back at you for fifteen minutes, when the day was otherwise quiet.

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