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noun

(in telephoning)

a call made to a number other than the one intended.
the number or person reached through such a call.

Slang.

the wrong person for a particular task, role, or situation: Me cook a gourmet dinner?—You've got the wrong number!
an inadequate, disagreeable, or repulsive person: She's OK, but her brother's a wrong number.

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How to use wrong number in a sentence

Instead, though, he kept finding brain cells that had the wrong number of chromosomes.
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In addition to abnormal insertions and the wrong number of vessels, the study lists abnormal cord length, cysts, and blood clots along the cord.
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Everything she found on Google or through WhatsApp was a wrong number, or the supplies were out of stock.
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They would write down the wrong number when solving a math problem, even knowing the right answer, or read the same page of a book several times to pick up basic details.
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“You got the wrong number for that,” Det. Johnson told her colleague, Coleman, over the phone while I fed her questions.
The Disappearing Cops of East St. Louis|Justin Glawe|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Louis said they had no Toots there and Lamb said he was very sorry, that he must have got the wrong number.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
I really ought to have been one of the people in the Central Exchange, who give you the wrong number.
Dodo's Daughter|E. F. Benson
The other I discovered, and now occupy, although he gave me both a wrong name and wrong number.
The Book-Hunter|John Hill Burton
Sometimes he would be summoned to the telephone, only to learn that Central had called the wrong number.
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The children are sometimes caught by the wrong number being told to fly.
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British Dictionary definitions for wrong number

wrong number

noun

a telephone number wrongly connected or dialled in error or the person so contacted

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