locker-room

Related to locker-room: Foot Locker

locker-room

Of a rude, often sexual nature, as might be discussed among men in a private setting such as a locker room. (Used before nouns.) Please, don't use that type of locker-room talk at the dinner table. Quit it with the locker-room humor, would you? You sound like a fifth grader.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • come into
  • come into (something or some place)
  • go to your room
  • Go to your room!
  • knock through
  • knock through (something)
  • room-in (with one's baby)
  • room for/to maneuver
  • locker room talk
  • locker-room talk
References in periodicals archive
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Besides, she went on, if women's team sports ever reach the stage where locker-room interviews become common, "women would cover up," Dodds stated.
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As the debate raged over whether female reporters should have the same locker-room access as men, the elite crop of Black women sports reporters took it in stride.
Black women sportswriters and the locker room wars: female reporters who gather sports news take controversy in stride
FITCHBURG - Of the many recent renovations and improvements to the Wallace Civic Center, the remodeled locker-room area for the Fitchburg State College men's hockey team is what pleases head coach Dean Fuller the most.
Locker room aces with FSC hockey coach
But with that kind of constant locker-room talk, how did you keep that part of your life inside for so long?
Tackling football's closet: in his first gay-press interview, former Minnesota Viking Esera Tuaolo gives an insider's view of sports homophobia from the locker room to the Super Bowl and talks for the first time about his partner and their children. (Cover Story)
"It's no secret that I have always enjoyed the locker-room, the Odyssey and the fans in Belfast and, quite simply, I've missed playing.
It is equally futile for others to cast aspirations on the relationships in the Giants' locker-room. They should concentrate on the issues facing their own teams rather than deal in pathetic rumour mongering," said Elliott.
Giants ice Ruff rift claim
PAT RAFTER is planning a third Aussie knees-up after watching cricket's World Cup final and staging a locker-room party yesterday.
Wimbledon '99: PAT PLANNING HIS BIG PARTY