telephone pole

noun

chiefly US
: a tall wooden pole that supports the wires of a telephone system

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To the right, a huge osprey took off from a telephone pole with a few languid flaps of its dark wings. Eric Lach, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 Macke was able to drive a short distance before crashing into a telephone pole. Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 The train hit the truck on the right side, sending it careening northeast into a switching control box and then a telephone pole. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025 The truck then ricocheted to the northbound side of the road and stopped after striking a telephone pole, according to police. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for telephone pole

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“Telephone pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20pole. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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