talkie

Definition

A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.

Etymology

Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.

Example Sentences

• "On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie."
• "“We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”"
• ""[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts."