trunk call
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC ● Jun. 25, 2012
In fairness to the Postal authorities he should have admitted that it was a trunk call.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 by Various
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
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
Please get me Stevenish one-three-seven," he said, "it's a trunk call.
From The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams
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