trunk call


noun Chiefly British.

a long-distance phone call.

Origin of trunk call

First recorded in 1905–10

Example sentences from the Web for trunk call

  • If he were going to be anxious enough not to mind the trunk-call charge he would have been anxious enough before this.

    Vera |Elisabeth von Arnim
  • He put a postal order for three-and-sixpence in his letter, to pay for a trunk-call: isn't that rather sweet of him?

    Dodo Wonders |E. F. Benson

British Dictionary definitions for trunk call

trunk call

noun

mainly British a long-distance telephone call