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ˈtalk-out colloq.
[f. vbl. phr. to talk out: see talk v. 9.]
a. A ‘talking out’ of a bill in Parliament, a filibuster. (In quot., with pl. talks out.) rare.
1884E. W. Hamilton Diary 25 Mar. (1972) II. 583 One cannot help thinking that the Speaker..has missed an opportunity of applying the closure to prevent those purely obstructive ‘talks out’, which morning sittings are so well adapted to promote.
b. An exhaustive discussion, in which a matter is ‘talked out’.
1965Listener 16 Sept. 431/1 The series contained a fair number of..‘talk-outs’, as I must shudderingly report I have heard them called, on music, drama, poetry. 1967Telegraph (Brisbane) 10 Apr. 7/6 A ‘marathon talk-out’ or similar scheme for mass support would pressure the Government to solve the present education problem in Queensland. 1978New York 3 Apr. 58/2 At the conclusion of every Wednesday talkout, I was shocked, saddened, and dismayed. |