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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
Synonym of walkie-talkie (“portable bidirectional radio transceiver”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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Synonyms: walkie-talkie
Antonyms: none provided
History
Originally military, used since at least 1943. By surface analysis, hand + -ie + talk with reduplication of the suffix.
