What is "walkie-talkie"

Usage examples of "walkie-talkie".

Thirty seconds later sixteen of them were crouched on the aft hull, all carrying machine guns, wearing balaclava hoods and wired into their walkie-talkies.

But if the nukes aft could get propulsion they could take control of the rudder, and with Lennox in the sail and communications with the walkie-talkies, Lennox and the nukes alone could drive the ship away from the pier.

Half a dozen police cars were in the outside, and uniformed cops were the sidewalks, walkie-talkies in their stopping people and asking them He had never seen so many cops in except that time when he was still living in Harlem, and a spic was holed an apartment in Spanish Harlem, between Park and Madison.

Secret Service resources air-lifted to Alupka produced a Benzedrine pill, two lightweight but super-intensity torches with long-life lithium batteries, a 1,000ft roll of yellow polypropylene string with a lOOlb breaking strength, two cans of spray paint in Day-glo orange, a Walkie-Talkie good for three miles, a roll of black electrical tape, a 9mm Beretta, and the toughest item - which had to draw on the even greater resources of Russia - an ice-hockey stick from the local Soviet Army team.

German into his walkie-talkie, warning his other men to stay away from the hydrogenator and take cover, but to keep it in sight at all times.

Oskar Ugor-Zhilov, a wiry man in his middle fifties, wearing baggy trousers tucked into rubber galoshes and a fur shapka with the earflaps raised and jutting, carried two wine glasses in one hand and a bulky Russian walkie-talkie in the other.

The line was moving swiftly now, and Cuvier and his lady friend were at the front door of the auditorium before Merle got the walkie-talkie unhooked from his belt and brought it to his lips.

He doubles back to her on repeated, suck-up visits, cementing their wary truce with miscalculated small gifts: dried dough he swears will come back to life if soaked, half of a sundered walkie-talkie set, worthless books washed up in the tidal pools of trade, tides only she would read.

Helen Hussey called the atrium on the walkie-talkie to report that Nathan Coleman had shot himself to escape drowning, Ray Richardson understood for the first time the gravity of their situation.

He patted the battered and sawdusty walkie-talkie clipped to his belt.

Then, rounding the last turn before home, he was stopped by the startling chaos before him that blocked the road and transformed his dull backwater neighborhood into the scene of a natural disaster: there were trucks and cars and monster RVs and a couple of open semitrailers and a ragtag army of intent good-looking people of all ages in baggy shorts and baseball caps, many clutching hand walkie-talkies as if the hard gray rectangles were bricks of precious metal, all moving earnestly among the tables loaded with good-looking food, the folding chairs, the cables, the light stands, with a self-important arrogance, an air of imperviousness, of brute inevitability, because, goddamn it, they were members of a goddamn movie crew.

Rydell was a big quiet Tennessean with a sad shy grin, cheap sunglasses, and a walkie-talkie screwed permanently into one ear.

Rayford clicked off the walkie-talkie and conference-phoned Trib Force members, old and new, among the crowd.

A man with a brushcut hurried through, his walkie-talkie slapping his side.

Before they stopped, men jumped from the sides, dressed in outdoor clothes the same as these guards, burly, square-faced, cold-eyed, some holding rifles, others handguns, walkie-talkies dangling from their shoulders.