talker

plural talkers

1. A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.

   That guy's a real talker.

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   What this country needs is a smooth talker.

   Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.

   2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012

   At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.

   2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN

2. Any creature or machine that talks.

   Some parrots are vociferous talkers.

3. informalmediaA talk show
4. informalmediaA talk-show host.
5. informalmediaAn all-talk radio station.
6. informalmediaA popular topic of conversation.

   The royal engagement is likely to be a top talker right through the wedding.

7. informalgovernmentA talking point.
8. InternetA stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.
9. informalMouth.

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   Although on Sundays when the men had finished feeding cattle, the rest of the afternoon was free […] still they weren't comfortable in the bunkhouse if George was abroad; he had a queer authority without even knowing it, an ability to upset you, maybe because he so seldom opened his talker and his silence made you look in upon yourself, on the guilt you always knew was there.

   2009, Thomas Savage, Annie Proulx, The Power of the Dog: A Novel, →ISBN

10. businessA table talker or shelf-talker.
11. An augmentative and alternative communication device.