smoothtalk

present singular third person smoothtalks · participle present smoothtalking · participle past smoothtalked · past smoothtalked

1. alternativeAlternative form of smooth talk.

   After smoothtalking some Air Canada reps at the gate, I got bumped up to first class.

   2017, John Gallagher, “Spanning the Globe”, in Big League Babble On: The Misadventures of a Rabble-Rousing Sportscaster and Why He Should Be Dead by Now, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn, →ISBN, page 218

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   In many of the “old” movies the dashing salesman, a/k/a Cary Grant, smoothtalks and coyly charms the receptionist to do his bidding.

   2007 December, Dennis Awe, “Hollywood Style”, in How to Outsell & Outearn, Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere!, Longwood, Fla.: American Photos, Graphics & Designs Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, chapter 12 (Knock. Knock. Let Me In!), page 182

   But that night, in the autumn dusk, surrounded by the buzz of vapor lights and a haze of smoke, I saw my friend John suddenly on the other side, left ear newly pierced, joint in hand, and I felt betrayed. He smiled and smoothtalked, “Hey, man, [something about the show].”

   2015 spring, Patrick Madden, “Spit”, in Sublime Physick: Essays, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 14

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of smooth talk.

   Boston sportswriters were similarly taken. They were used to dealing with either the taciturn Collins or the smoothtalk of Joe Cronin.

   1991, Glenn Stout, “The Road to Fenway Park”, in Dick Johnson, editor, Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26

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   The play presents a kind of war of different languages: office jargon; franglais marketing jargon; old-fashioned academic language; new media slang; jazzmen’s roughtalk; salesmen’s smoothtalk; high-finance talk, etc.

   1984, David Bradby, “Michel Vinaver”, in Modern French Drama 1940–1980, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 10 (Playwrights of the seventies), page 244

   Unprepared for the “depths of their skullduggery,” their bald-faced prevarications and smoothtalk, he’s gulled and fleeced, although still enough a man of the frontier to take back his losings at gunpoint.

   2005, Steve Fraser, “War and Peace on Wall Street”, in Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, part 2 (The Imperial Age), page 341