trunk call
Example Sentences
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC ● Jun. 25, 2012
Please get me Stevenish one-three-seven," he said, "it's a trunk call.
From The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams
"A trunk call," he said over his shoulder to the departing commissioner, "it may be something interesting."
From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace
On the third day, about two in the afternoon, I received a trunk call on the 'phone.
From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux
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 Max Rittenberg
