phone book

American  

noun

1. telephone book.

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Etymology

Origin of phone book

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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

A different email address - [email protected] - is listed in Epstein's phone book under a contact labelled "Duke of York", a previously released image showed.

From BBC

"I said, 'Get yourself a phone book. On every page you'll have a suspect.'"

From BBC

I wouldn’t pay to hear her read the proverbial phone book, but I might shell out to hear her sing it, while cracking jokes in between vocalizing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• directory
• telephone book
• yellow pages