Trucker phone

CB Radio

Traffics backed up again better bust out the ol' trucker phone!

by CracklingArtMaster March 9, 2021

Fossil phone

When ones phone is a flip phone that is from 2001

Your shitty fossil phone barely works

by Blackshadow105 October 14, 2016

Brazilian phone call

When you okay telephone but you’re both cups and the string.

A Brazilian phone call: “I want to lay the side of my face on your cheek and communicate with you through your butthole.”

by JayeKaye October 6, 2025

Business end of the phone book

The spine or binding of a large phone book used to bop em.

Tight lipped Tommy got the business end of the phone book after not checking BC01 for metal

by Tight lipped tommy May 31, 2024

phone paralysis

The complete inability to think or speak that some people get when their phone call is answered by someone other than the person they tried to ring.

They seem so stunned by the fact that someone they called might momentarily be away from their desk, that they had never thought of a way to deal with such an eventuality.

John's colleague: "Hello, John Smith's phone.................Hello?

Caller: "......er, hi.......er........is John not there?...."

John's colleague: "No, he's not about right now, can I take a message or something?"

Caller: "Er....er....yeah, can you ask him to call James at Acme? He's got my number"

John's colleague: "Will do, thanks.........(hangs up).....Jeez that dude had real phone paralysis!

by Urban Englander June 20, 2009

"dark ages"-inquiry phone call

Refers to da "shout-out" phone call dat you make to one or more local homes/businesses during a power-outage, to ask if they are without electricity, also ("Are you folks in da Dark Ages, as well?"); this allows you to reliably determine if it is indeed a widespread outage, rather than it's being "just you" (i.e., where you would need to check your home's wiring/fuse-box for unseen faulty connections).

During an unexpected power-outage, most folks will likely be at least marginally patient/understanding if you want to check wif dem about whether their electricity is off, as well, but you should still consider carefully before making said call --- usually you will want to do so only if da current weather is fairly "calm 'n' balmy" and therefore a utilities-outage would not be expected. It is generally understood dat service-wires might be downed if there is heavy snow/wind, and so in these cases your "dark ages"-inquiry phone call might be viewed as somewhat of an unnecessary/frivolous interruption, especially since those other folks will themselves probably be experiencing moderate difficulties/concerns regarding said hiccup in da flow of "angry pixies", and so at da time they may be feverishly scrambling to "batten down da hatches" while waiting for da power to come back on again. Good luck trying to call anyone, though, since nowadays da phone and electricity are no longer such "entirely separate circuits" as they used to be, and so unless it's an extremely small and "localized" outage, your home-phone service will likely be out, also, if da electricity is off. Dat's an instance where mobile phones can be an alternative means of communication, since most cellular-towers have their own "dedicated" power-source dat will remain active even if da "regular" electricity is off.

by QuacksO March 19, 2019

shake your phone

Engaging a search engine on one’s phone to find information.

Hey, can you shake your phone to get movies times?

by Anew_ March 18, 2019