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    [Noun]  | "dou*ble-talk" | \ ˈdə-bəl-ˌtȯk \


    1: language that appears to be earnest and meaningful but in fact is a mixture of sense and nonsense

    2: inflated, involved, and often deliberately ambiguous language


    Origin: 1936 ;

    [Noun]  | "double-talk" 


    1: language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions;


      * e.g., " ... the reporter listened to the senator's double-talk for about 30 seconds, and then repeated the question "



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    2: unintelligible or meaningless talk;


      * e.g., " ... the man on the sidewalk rattled off some double-talk, shoved the petition in my face, and before I realized it, I had added my signature to the list "



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     [ "double talk" ]

    1: Otherwise unnecessary verbiage added in order to confuse the listener, such as using a double negative to make a statement mean the opposite of what it would otherwise mean. See also, doublespeak.

      * e.g.,  ... "I didn't say I would not do it; I said I wouldn't not do it." 

     [ "double talk" ]

    1: deceptive speech designed to mean something that it does not explicitly say

      * e.g.,  ... Lay off the double talk already. 

     [ "Double Talk Express" ]

    1: Bus that John McCain travels on around the country that delivers Orwellian like double-talk on politics.

      * e.g.,  ... From the back of the Double Talk Express he continues to state wild and inane claims such as, "We can only win in Iraq if we stay in Iraq - and we can leave Iraq only when we win in Iraq" (not a direct quote, but paraphrased from his refusal to define "winning in Iraq"). 

     [ "Facebook Double talking" ]

    1: when two friends are one the phone with each other and one posts a new status and the other one comments while they are on the phone together. They know what each other is going to comment before they comment.

      * e.g.,  ... Ronnie and Riley are facebook double talking. 

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