Definition of "walkie-talkie" []

• A battery-powered portable sending and receiving radio set. (noun)

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• "A line has formed in the nursery school hallway, and Bekki Harris Kaplan, a tall lively woman dressed in a black skirted suit and pearls, breezes to and fro grasping a walkie-talkie, and pauses briefly to help two middle-aged women distribute tickets at the card table that has been set up to block the entrance to the synagogue."
• "Herzog is at the top of the slope, communicating with his cameraman through a walkie-talkie."
• "Close-up of the walkie-talkie, a voice comes from it."