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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My father, Aldo, opened its doors in 1984, selling salads and carpaccios at a moment when the New York dining landscape was divided, as one critic put it, between old-style red-sauce spots and fancy Frenchified salons with menus the size of a small-town phone book.
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Gea Bozzi, Air Mail, 16 May 2026
Guevara and two colleagues, Mason and then-Detective Ernest Halvorson, orchestrated a frame-up by coercing one witness to identify Rios by beating him with a phone book and flashlight, and another by threatening to charge him with obstruction, according to the plaintiffs’ allegations.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
The end credits, teeming with his screen-packing array of golfers, dancers, staff, guests, and passersby, resemble a local phone book.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
My money is on the guy who might not be able to jump over a phone book but still finds his shot dropping into the net in traffic.
—James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
Perna can read a phone book into his camera and get laughs, Keys said, and the visual humor of editors Barker and Sherrill completes the package.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 30 Nov. 2025
Pence said Bernard took him in an elevator and beat him with a phone book.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Nov. 2025
In fact, one of them is named in Epstein's phone book, not the secret files that the FBI is keeping, but in Epstein's phone book.
—ABC News, 16 Nov. 2025
Watching her in The Beaver is akin to asking Steph Curry to just shoot free throws or Daniel Day-Lewis to merely read the phone book.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
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Gea Bozzi, Air Mail, 16 May 2026
Guevara and two colleagues, Mason and then-Detective Ernest Halvorson, orchestrated a frame-up by coercing one witness to identify Rios by beating him with a phone book and flashlight, and another by threatening to charge him with obstruction, according to the plaintiffs’ allegations.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
The end credits, teeming with his screen-packing array of golfers, dancers, staff, guests, and passersby, resemble a local phone book.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
My money is on the guy who might not be able to jump over a phone book but still finds his shot dropping into the net in traffic.
—James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
Perna can read a phone book into his camera and get laughs, Keys said, and the visual humor of editors Barker and Sherrill completes the package.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 30 Nov. 2025
Pence said Bernard took him in an elevator and beat him with a phone book.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Nov. 2025
In fact, one of them is named in Epstein's phone book, not the secret files that the FBI is keeping, but in Epstein's phone book.
—ABC News, 16 Nov. 2025
Watching her in The Beaver is akin to asking Steph Curry to just shoot free throws or Daniel Day-Lewis to merely read the phone book.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
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“Phone book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20book. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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