phone book

American  

noun

1. telephone book.

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Etymology

Origin of phone book

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The pair hired an undergraduate to comb through phone book listings for fast-food restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the internet to become what we think of as the internet, you also needed people like Paul Mockapetris, who created the domain name system that is known as the phone book of the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal

By using inquiry agents, journalists did not have to go to paper archives to look through phone books, the court heard.

From BBC

Yes, his journalists had used private investigators with databases to legally obtain phone numbers, so they didn't have to leaf through phone books.

From BBC

An image from a prior Epstein files release showed a different, but similar email - [email protected] - listed in Epstein's phone book under a contact titled "Duke of York".

From BBC

Related Words

• directory
• telephone book
• yellow pages