A walkie-talkie is a small portable radio which you can talk into and hear messages through so that you can communicate with someone far away.
walkie-talkie in British English
or walky-talky (ˌwɔːkɪˈtɔːkɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-talkies
a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, usually operating on short wave, that can be carried around by one person: widely used by the police, medical services, etc
walkie-talkie in American English
(ˈwɔkiˈtɔki)
US
noun
a compact radio transmitter and receiver that can be carried by one person
Examples of 'walkie-talkie' in a sentence
walkie-talkie
Do walkie-talkies work on a large ship?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And me and my sister got walkie-talkies and could talk to each other from our rooms.
The Sun (2014)
In other languages
walkie-talkie
British English: walkie-talkie /ˌwɔːkɪˈtɔːkɪ/ NOUN
A walkie-talkie is a small portable radio which you can talk into and hear messages through so that you can communicate with someone far away.