walkie-talkie

Or walk·y-talk·y

[waw-kee-taw-kee]

noun

Radio.

1. a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.

walkie-talkie

/ ˌwɔːkɪˈtɔːkɪ /

noun

1. a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, usually operating on shortwave, that can be carried around by one person: widely used by the police, medical services, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of walkie-talkie¹

1935–40, walk, talk, -ie

Example Sentences

Instead, to help his family after his father had a stroke, he got a job in Hollywood, working as a “walkie-talkie guy” on the set of a TV movie called “Found Money.”

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One of her colleagues raised the alarm over a walkie-talkie and then "we finished evacuating the visits without quite realising really what was going on".

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In September last year, hundreds of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in an Israeli operation that paralysed the group's communications systems and that Lebanon said killed 39 people and wounded thousands.

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In contact with the bench by walkie-talkie, it was also the communication with his assistants, the sports scientist, the physio and the fitness coach that Allardyce saw the value in.

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Perales bought a pair of walkie-talkies so he could communicate with his daughter on breaks and in between classes.

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