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Obama phone
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Obama Phone
English
Etymology
Coined during the Obama administration, which conservatives believed was giving minorities free Lifeline Program phones.
Noun
en US A cellphone provided as part of the United States Universal_Service_Fund#Low_income_.28Lifeline.29 Lifeline Program.
en 29 September 2012 [Tor] Sir Gregory Hall, Esq. alt.usenet.kooks Emmett's "Obama phone" https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.usenet.kooks/6hsm8tLETtc/oUpYAPYHERQJ Here's Emmett's mother touting the virtues of her "Obama phone"
en 2013 Steve De France Because I Can’t Whistle http://books.google.com/books?id=b4wGeEOZqoAC&pg=PA102&dq=%22Obama+phones%22#v=onepage 102 Xlibris Outside / brown & broken teeth / gasp out brainless twaddle. / into their Obama phones.
en 2014 Darlene Pollock; Logan Pollock Invasive Species, Part I http://books.google.com/books?id=fIUPAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&dq=%22Obama+phones%22#v=onepage 31 Trafford Publishing “. Get yourself one of those Obama phones, Romeo,”
Alternative forms
en Obama Phone Obamaphone
en eponyms
en Barack Obama