locker room talk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

locker room talk locker-room talk

Etymology

From locker room + talk, from the stereotype of crude conversations taking place in athletic locker rooms.

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