trunk call
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC ● Jun. 25, 2012
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
He had never stayed in the house before, and he had booked his room by a trunk call from London.
From The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
While the landlady, therefore, ordered the tea, Everard went out to the public telephone, asked for a trunk call, and rang up No. 169 Balderton.
From The Princess of the School by Frank Wiles
The telephone squealed shrilly; it was a trunk call from Nemesis.
From The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki
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