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Ameche
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English
Etymology
After Don Ameche, who played Alexander Graham Bell in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell a 1939 film en.
Noun
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en US dated slang A telephone.
en 1992 Robert Ludlum The Road to Omaha 1993 Bantam 0553560441 239 http://google.com/books?id=5SKqwckuCh8C&pg=PA239&dq=Ameche Tell the asshole to take the fuckin' cigar out of his mouth and get on the Ameche.
2002, Richard W. McBurney, Bag Men: Mosaics, Trafford (self-published), 1553697200, page 266 :
"Sweetheart, bring me the Ameche, please." His face had a foolish smile.
Untangling the twenty foot extension cord, Alice Lynn placed the telephone in front of her husband.
en 2004 Tim Dorsey Cadillac Beach 0060556943 214 http://google.com/books?id=MjAENSuz9mcC&pg=PA214&dq=Ameche "He was mixing with some trouble boys on the flimflam, putting screws to a Peterman after the box job.""How'd you hear?""Jawed with him on the Ameche."
Anagrams
en aceehm Cheema
en eponyms
en Telephony