telephone books

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of telephone book.
  telephone book

  noun

  a book, directory, or the like, usually containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a city or other area, together with their addresses and telephone numbers.

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telephone books

Early social-networking platforms such as LiveJournal, BlackPlanet, Friendster and MySpace were like self-service telephone books; they gave people the capacity to share stories and converse.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2020

My favorite memory was of Jerry onstage at an upright piano, sitting atop two telephone books, playing the entire score for us.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2019

Leroy and Lauri Dixon used to plow $40,000 a year into promoting their party-supply business in a dozen telephone books.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2015

That can include vintage telephone books and high school yearbooks.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2015

She took the three hoarded office telephone books out of some recess in her desk and, studying the pages with a magnifying glass, gave them a number.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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