Synonyms for walkie-talkie


Grammar : Noun
Spell : waw-kee-taw-kee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɔ kiˈtɔ ki


Définition of walkie-talkie

Origin :
  • 1939, popularized in World War II army slang, from walk (v.) + talk (v.).
  • noun handheld transmitter and receiver
Example sentences :
  • A black-haired housewife spied them over her back fence, crossed herself and grabbed her walkie-talkie from the laundry basket.
  • Extract from : « Bread Overhead » by Fritz Reuter Leiber
  • Joe and Chuck were in their own car, the riot guns and walkie-talkie out of sight.
  • Extract from : « The Flying Stingaree » by Harold Leland Goodwin
  • "Might be relaying messages on from a walkie-talkie or something like that," Buck commented.
  • Extract from : « The Defiant Agents » by Andre Alice Norton
  • He traced the circuit to where it disappeared into the oscillator switch, then took the walkie-talkie.
  • Extract from : « The Scarlet Lake Mystery » by Harold Leland Goodwin
  • McDevitt had a radio in his car with which to talk to Wallops, and Steve handed him one unit of a walkie-talkie radio network.
  • Extract from : « The Flying Stingaree » by Harold Leland Goodwin
  • In the airlessness, anything anybody said by walkie-talkie could be heard by everybody.
  • Extract from : « Operation: Outer Space » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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