locker room talk en · NOUN
Etymology
From locker room + talk, from the stereotype of crude conversations taking place in athletic locker rooms.
Meanings
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(slang, uncountable) A type of boastful, lurid, chauvinistic conversation that commonly takes place in all-male locker rooms, especially such conversation concerning sexual conquests and the like.
Locker room talk is both sports talk and dirty talk. Men compete with one another (thus the sports talk), but they control the anxieties associated with competition by downgrading the prize they all want—women.
1988, Larry Hirschhorn, The Workplace Within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life, pages 130–131:This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk.
2016, Donald J. Trump, “Donald J. Trump’s Apology for Vulgar Comments”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| locker-room talk | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
guy talk · bro talk · boys will be boys
Translations (3)
da omklædningsrumssnak (locker room talk) · pl rozmowy szatniowe (locker room talk) · sv grabbig (locker room talk)