talkie

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/ˈtɔːki/

Definition of talkie

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(dated, historical, informal)A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.

“On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.”
““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.””

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noun

(dated, historical, informal)A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.

“On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.”
““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.””
(dated, historical)A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.

“"[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts.”

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Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.

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