Word.ws English Dictionary

talkie-walkie

talkie-walkie noun: a walkie-talkie.

Noun

talkie-walkie (plural talkie-walkies)

  1. (non-native speakers' English) A walkie-talkie.
    • Mr "secret agent" who carries a talkie-walkie that is not really a talkie-walkie (stupid guy boasting about his VHF as if it was a 48 caliber on his Web Page!!)1997 December 21, Madjid BOUKRI, “ANTENNA LENGTH”, in rec.radio.amateur.misc (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022
    • But they seem to be designed to work with talkie-walkies. I remind i do not need a talkie-walkie as my transmitter (noone has to talk to me ) but a^([sic]) input jack for the transmitter. It is the mp3 player that plays music. Unless there are talkie-walkies with jack input?2003 April 30, alex, “Discrete Wireless mp3 player How to”, in sci.electronics.components (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022

Forms of talkie-walkie

pluraltalkie-walkies

Origin of talkie-walkie

Borrowed from French talkie-walkie, and this a pseudo-anglicism, derived from an inversion of English walkie-talkie.

Questions about talkie-walkie

What does talkie-walkie mean?
Talkie-walkie means a walkie-talkie.
What part of speech is talkie-walkie?
Talkie-walkie is a noun.
What is the plural of talkie-walkie?
The plural of talkie-walkie is talkie-walkies.

Words near talkie-walkie in the dictionary

  1. talkful
  2. talkgroup
  3. talkgroups
  4. Talkhab-e Kalat
  5. talkie
  6. talkie-walkie
  7. talkie-walkies
  8. talkier
  9. talkies
  10. talkiest
  11. talkily

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: talkie-walkie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “talkie-walkie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/talkie-walkie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.