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locker-room talk

locker-room talk is the alternative form of locker room talk.

Meaning of locker room talk

Noun

locker room talk (uncountable)

  1. (slang) A type of boastful, lurid, chauvinistic conversation that commonly takes place in all-male locker rooms, especially such conversation concerning sexual conquests and the like.
    • Locker room talk is both sports talk and dirty talk. Men compete with one another (thus the sports talk), but they control the anxieties associated with competition by downgrading the prize they all want—women.1988, Larry Hirschhorn, The Workplace Within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life, pages 130–131

Questions about locker-room talk

What is locker-room talk the alternative form of?
Locker-room talk is the alternative form of locker room talk.

Words near locker-room talk in the dictionary

  1. locker room
  2. locker room humor
  3. locker room talk
  4. locker rooms
  5. locker-room
  6. locker-room talk
  7. locker-rooms
  8. Lockerbie
  9. Lockerbies
  10. lockerbox
  11. lockerboxes

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