locker room talk
locker room talk noun: 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.
Noun
locker room talk (uncountable)
- 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
- This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk.2016, Donald J. Trump, “Donald J. Trump’s Apology for Vulgar Comments”, in The New York Times
Forms of locker room talk
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Origin of locker room talk
From locker room + talk, from the stereotype of crude conversations taking place in athletic locker rooms.
Questions about locker room talk
- What does locker room talk mean?
- Locker room talk means 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.
- What part of speech is locker room talk?
- Locker room talk is a noun.
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