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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There was a phone book, camera film canisters, metal pins, the tattered remains of a baseball cap and an orange t-shirt with the outline of a giant thumbs up. Rylan Digiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026 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. Gea Bozzi, Air Mail, 16 May 2026 No 's' despite what some maps and businesses have in the phone book. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 22 Mar. 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 See All Example Sentences for phone book

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“Phone book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20book. Accessed 14 Jul. 2026.

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