Meaning of Talkie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
   dated, historical, informal
2. A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.
   dated, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“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.””

“"[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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