telephone girl

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Noun

telephone girl (plural telephone girls)

  1. (telephony, dated) A female telephone operator.
    Synonym: (dated) hello girl
    • 1915, W. David, J. Barnett, Hermann Darewski, “Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich?”:
      I've just had a row with a telephone girl, a telephone girl, my brain's in a whirl.

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