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Definition of "talkback" []

  • A system of communications links in a television or radio studio that enables directions to be given while a program is being produced. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "talkback" in a sentence
  • "Women are often to scared to even speak the truth of their lives or to even call talkback radio."
  • "They call talkback radio and the office here at The Daily Telegraph because they remember Graeme Langlands as one of the greats, one of its Immortals, and what future does a game have if it cannot look after its past?"
  • "It involved a public brawl in Melbourne's back streets that prompted shocked bystanders to call talkback radio; rumours sweeping the city of a blood-drenched man clutching a tomahawk;"