locker room talk

locker room talk

Crude, vulgar, or bawdy talk, often involving boasts about one's sexual conquests. I'm no prude by any means, but I hate the locker room talk my boyfriend partakes in when his buddies are around.
See also: locker, room, talk

locker-room talk

Especially crude, vulgar, or bawdy humor or chatter. I'm no prude by any means, but I hate the locker-room talk my boyfriend partakes in when his buddies are around.
See also: talk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • locker-room talk
  • talk at cross purposes
  • talk to
  • talk to (one)
  • What's on your mind?
  • straight talk
  • talk about
  • Talk about (something)!
  • talk about...
  • talk (one's) ear(s) off
References in periodicals archive
Such toxic locker room talk has no place in a thriller purportedly set in a futuristic world.
Our influence extends around the globe with our productions of Ulster American, What Girls Are Made Of, Mouthpiece and Locker Room Talk touring to audiences in Australia, New Zealand, North and South America, Ireland and the UK already this year.
The rest of the field includes two juveniles in Tiffin Top and Salazar, as well as the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Locker Room Talk, who broke his maiden over hurdles at Huntingdon in March.
Four women will take to the stage of Stirling's Macrobert Arts Centre on Thursday, April 18 for'Locker Room Talk.' It is a provocative piece of event theatre exploring how men speak about women in men-only spaces.
March Madness usually brings plenty of locker room talk in the NBA.
Carlson can't claim "locker room talk." He knew he was speaking on the air.
Much like President Donald Trump's infamous Access Hollywood tape, which he later dismissed as "locker room talk," an audio montage of Carlson's decade-old conversations, published by (https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/03/10/unearthed-audio-tucker-carlson-makes-numerous-misogynistic-and-perverted-comments/223092) non-profit watchdog Media Matters , caught the TV anchor using demeaning terms to describe a number of women.
Lennox said: "What he said was so objectionable that millions of women and men came out to the streets to protest and say, 'No we cannot have locker room talk and you cannot have this attitude against us'."
No "boys will be boys" locker room talk. And do not respond to these suggestions by calling for and having "all male" events.
Behind the orange hair, the baggy suits and the crude locker room talk he is certainly no worse than the well-dressed, well-spoken Obama, who made ringing speeches while firing missiles into Yemen and Somalia while starting the war on Syria and while giving more money to Israel.
But try as the government might, no message about teachers could be stronger than confining their concerns and wages to mere locker room talk for the President's men, while the salaries of the police and the military double in just a snap of President Duterte's fingers.
But I do think there are universal things parents can teach, especially fathers to sons, about consent, responsibility and honoring the dignity of the other In a culture where growing boys are bombarded with salacious advertising and easily accessible lewd material, and where dehumanizing banter is written off as locker room talk, the only choice is for fathers--and other male role models --to teach their sons to navigate these arenas with vulnerability, virtue and courage.
He just got off the bus." These words are especially disgusting knowing the "locker room talk" that had occurred only moments before on that bus.
Among the list of things truly diverse workplaces lose: environments rife with sexual and racial harassment; locker room talk; the mean girls club; degrading jokes and innuendo; bullying; able-ism, and so much more.
He dismissed his remarks as "locker room talk" for which he never apologized.