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talk-back
[ tawk-bak ]
noun
- a communications system enabling those in the studio to hear control-room personnel through a loudspeaker or headphones.
talk back
verb
- to answer boldly or impudently
- to conduct a telephone dialogue for immediate transmission over the air
noun
- television radio a system of telephone links enabling spoken directions to be given during the production of a programme
- a broadcast telephone dialogue
- ( as modifier )
a talkback show
Word History and Origins
Origin of talk-back1
Idioms and Phrases
Also, answer back . Reply rudely or impertinently, as in She was always in trouble for talking back , or The teacher won't allow anyone to answer back to her . [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Harris slyly acknowledges the divisiveness of his work at the top of the film with video taken at a 2019 post-show talk-back.
In a talk-back at the end of the show, Ullett admitted that he quite liked Berkoff, ornery though he was, and that he respected Friedkin’s stature as one of the great film directors.
One of their peers, Samantha, has committed suicide, and the synagogue is hosting a talk-back session for students to share their feelings about her death.
Early in her career, after a performance of Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” — “absolutely an Everyman tragedy story,” Davis said — she and the rest of her cast, all Black, hosted a talk-back.
Thursday-Saturday, with an artist talk-back following the Friday performance. $39-$99.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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