trunk call
Example Sentences
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC ● Jun. 25, 2012
"A trunk call," he said over his shoulder to the departing commissioner, "it may be something interesting."
From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace
The telephone squealed shrilly; it was a trunk call from Nemesis.
From The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki
Then he asked the post-office for a trunk call to Paris, and after an hour's wait he was put in touch with the headquarters of the Europe Chronicle.
From Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg
The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
