Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of phonebook.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers
Examples
“I went over to the library and checked out Anna Karenina and Cyrano de Bergerac and got the Denver phone book from the reference section.”
“The second was a much meatier check from a coin collector who had lost a case of cash from dead nations over the side of his yacht in Lake Michigan and resorted to trying out the only wizard in the phone book to locate them.”
“Sophie unearths a phone book and looks up Dub’s office number.”
“Then I got out the phone book and called Dana Brett at home.”
“Spitting out a suitable expletive, he looked up a number in the slim phone book that listed Mooseville subscribers.”
“Returning to Pont Square I looked for Patricia Huxford in every phone book I possessed for Surrey and Sussex and, for good measure, the bordering southern counties of Hampshire and Kent.”
“He had counted forty-seven Goodwinters in the Moose County phone book but twice that many Lumptons in the Spuds-boro directory.”
“On his honeymoon trip to Maui in 1977, he opened the phone book in an attempt to find a chop-suey place to take his new bride.”
“I'll try the government pages of the phone book first, see who the flak-catchers who answer the phones send me to.”
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phone phrases words
how phone is used
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hernesheir At least in Idaho in the mid-late 1970's a slang term for a kilo of marijuana, perhaps owing to the shape and size of the packaged bundle it was transported and sold in. Jun 26, 2010
ramsler "Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can do so on the smartphones that are already in their pockets — bringing a whole new meaning to “phone book.” - New York Times, 11/19/2009 Nov 18, 2009