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.
| 1942 Nat. Geogr. Mag. Nov. 680 Churchill..is holding a ‘handie-talkie’ radio used for conversation between ground points and planes in the air. 1943 Time 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. 1960 Times 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. 1969 S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xiii. 113 Cops spoke busily into their car radios and handy-talkies. |