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talkies

talkies noun: talking movies. Also the plural of talkie.

Noun

talkies

  1. (dated) Talking movies.
    • “We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (0:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou)

Also used as

talkies is also the plural of talkie.

Phrases with talkies

Questions about talkies

What does talkies mean?
Talkies means talking movies.
What part of speech is talkies?
Talkies is a noun.

Words near talkies in the dictionary

  1. Talkhab-e Kalat
  2. talkie
  3. talkie-walkie
  4. talkie-walkies
  5. talkier
  6. talkies
  7. talkiest
  8. talkily
  9. talkin
  10. talkin'
  11. talkiness

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