trunk call

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That would make it a trunk call - get it?

From Children's BBC • Jun. 25, 2012

Now it is merely a question of a trunk call.

From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by Dilnot, George

A financial editor of a responsible journal does not talk freely with any unknown man who rings him up on a hasty trunk call.

From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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