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talkie

noun

  1. film with sound
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːki/

noun

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

  1. 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.”

  2. 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.