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handie-talkie|ˈhændɪˌtɔːkɪ|
Also Handie-Talkie, handy-talky.
[After walkie-talkie.]
Name of a light form of walkie-talkie two-way radio set, easily carried in the hand.
1942Nat. Geogr. Mag. Nov. 680 Churchill..is holding a ‘handie-talkie’ radio used for conversation between ground points and planes in the air. 1943Time 27 Sept. 83/2 (Advt.), He'll talk his way out..with his two-way ‘handy-talkie’... The ‘handy-talkie’ is only one of many radio communication devices of our armed forces. 1960Times 8 Mar. 15/3 The equipment is known as a Handie-Talkie and has been produced to replace the heavier walkie-talkie sets used during the last war. 1969S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xiii. 113 Cops spoke busily into their car radios and handy-talkies. |