locker room talk
Crude male banter
Locker room talk refers to crude, boastful, or sexually explicit conversation supposedly typical of men in private settings—like an athletic locker room.
The term gained prominence after a 2016 recording of Donald Trump making vulgar comments about women, which he dismissed as "locker room talk." The phrase now often appears skeptically, implying that such speech reveals character rather than excusing it: Don't tell me it was just locker room talk.
- masculinityMale gender characteristics
- bro cultureHypermasculine social environment
- boys will be boysSaying that excuses mischief
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- braggingExcessive self-praise
banter · confessions · just between us · off the record · machismo · fraternity · sexism · profanity · double entendre · objectification · privacy · boasting · talking trash · chest-thumping · normalization · frankness · no filter · guys
- pregamewarmup, warm-up, stretching routine, stretching, pregame show
- speechesspeech, addresses, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy
- gender humorgender stereotypes, husband jokes, wife jokes, dating humor, mansplaining
- lad culturelad culture, boozing, pub crawl, stag do, stag party
- chatterchat, chatter, chatting, chitchat, chit-chat
- slangslang, jargon, lingo, argot, cant
locker room talkpolite conversation
Courteous social discourse
diplomatic language · courtly speech · civil discourse · formal speech · professional communication
talk, room, lock, rooms, locked, unlock, locks, locker, padlock