phone book
noun
: a book that lists the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the people and businesses in a certain area
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Sure enough, in an old 1976 New York City phone book, a Vincent McNally was listed with an address on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village.
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Lee Cowan, CBS News, 16 June 2024
By corrupting the phone book, such attacks put the basic stability of the Internet at risk.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
That last panel shows her phone book, with, for some reason, my name in it.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
The only book not adapted to the screen is the phone book.
—New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
Others play it artfully straight, like prayers or the phone book.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
The team had been acquired by William Wrigley Jr., a chewing-gum merchant and merchandising maven who once mailed sticks of gum to every home in the nation listed in a phone book.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
In 1932, 16 automobile dealers appeared in the Westminster phone book.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 26 Aug. 2023
What can Answer Man tell me about that? — Dan Kirby, Arlington The 1944 phone book for the District of Columbia listed more than 30 bowling alleys in Washington and its close-in suburbs.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
Lee Cowan, CBS News, 16 June 2024
By corrupting the phone book, such attacks put the basic stability of the Internet at risk.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
That last panel shows her phone book, with, for some reason, my name in it.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
The only book not adapted to the screen is the phone book.
—New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
Others play it artfully straight, like prayers or the phone book.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
The team had been acquired by William Wrigley Jr., a chewing-gum merchant and merchandising maven who once mailed sticks of gum to every home in the nation listed in a phone book.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
In 1932, 16 automobile dealers appeared in the Westminster phone book.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 26 Aug. 2023
What can Answer Man tell me about that? — Dan Kirby, Arlington The 1944 phone book for the District of Columbia listed more than 30 bowling alleys in Washington and its close-in suburbs.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
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“Phone book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20book. Accessed 27 Jun. 2024.
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