Definition of Double talk

1. Noun. Deliberately unintelligible gibberish.

Generic synonyms: Gibber, Gibberish

Definition of Double talk

1. Noun. (idiomatic) : Lying, especially in a formal political statement. ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) Speech which combines English and English-sounding gibberish for humorous effect. ¹

3. Noun. A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Talk

double star system
double star systems
double stars
double steal
double steals
double stitch
double stop
double stopping
double stops
double straddle
double straddles
double switch
double tachycardia
double take
double taker
double talk (current term)
double tap
double taps
double team
double tertian
double tertian malaria
double thymidine block
double time
double tongue
double top
double trap
double up
double vertical line
double vision

Literary usage of Double talk

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Terrorism: Victims' Access to Terrorist Assets edited by Jon Kyl (2002)
"... but it is double-talk, and it is double-talk that has a very specific institutional purpose, which is to say to the world and to say to the Congress, ..."

2. U. S. Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the Health of the Persian by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"... that we're really moving at top speed, and that we're escaping from all of the kind of double- talk that's been associated with many cases up until now, ..."

3. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"While these familiar phrases are reminiscent of Hollywood double-talk, they're far more straightforward than that—they're the way computers talk to their ..."

4. Self-Neglect Among the Elderly: Maintaining Continuity of Self by Susanna D. Bozinovski (1998)
"That's double talk. I took the pills as directed (shouts) BY GOD! (laughing) not the (laughing) All I said was, took the pills as directed. ..."

5. Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Marta L. Werner (2005)
"... double talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (New York: Routledge,). 9. For an overview of the publication history of the American notebooks, ..."

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