talking head

1. 1.

   a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen

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Questions about talking head

What does talking head mean?

talking head means "a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen".

Is talking head a common word?

talking head is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.