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double-talk

double-talk is the alternative form of double talk.

Meaning of double talk

Noun

double talk (uncountable)

  1. Doublespeak.
    • "Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1
  2. Lies, especially in a formal political statement.
  3. Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect.
    • [Sid] Caesar's vaudeville format included burlesques—in the nineteenth-century meaning of parody—featuring silent-film and film noir send-ups; Italian opera produced in Caesar's ad-libbed, faux-Italian double-talk;[…]2014, Rick DesRochers, The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 15
  4. A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
  5. A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.

Questions about double-talk

What is double-talk the alternative form of?
Double-talk is the alternative form of double talk.

Words near double-talk in the dictionary

  1. double-stuffs
  2. double-suicide
  3. double-suicides
  4. double-take
  5. double-takes
  6. double-talk
  7. double-talker
  8. double-talkers
  9. double-tap
  10. double-tapped
  11. double-tapping

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