Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A speech, particularly one given to salespeople, aimed at inspiring and boosting confidence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From the idea of gingering a horse to make it seem more lively, or adding ginger to spice up a food or beverage; compare ginger group. Perhaps coined by Worthington C. Holman, author of Ginger Talks: The Talks of a Sales Manager to His Men (1905).
