smoothtalk

smoothtalk (third-person singular simple present smoothtalks, present participle smoothtalking, simple past and past participle smoothtalked)

1. Alternative form of smooth talk.
   • 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:

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

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

     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].”

   • 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:

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

smoothtalk (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of smooth talk.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     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.