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walkie-talkie
[ waw-kee-taw-kee ]
noun
- a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.
walkie-talkie
/ ˌɔːɪˈɔːɪ /
noun
- a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, usually operating on shortwave, that can be carried around by one person: widely used by the police, medical services, etc
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of walkie-talkie1
Example Sentences
A day later, walkie-talkies used by the group suddenly exploded too.
“If he’s grabbing the walkie-talkie, it’s something important.”
Neves’ 8-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, would take walkie-talkies and hang out at Jenkins’ house until their mother called them home.
A dramatic Israeli intelligence operation in mid-September involved exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, resulting in the death of more than a dozen Hezbollah foot soldiers, with thousands of other people in Lebanon injured or maimed.
Although ABC’s studio could be rebuilt from original plans, the devices — walkie-talkies, phones, tape machines, all state-of-the-art technology then — couldn’t be replicated if they were to be used accurately onscreen.
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