Definitions
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- noun broadcasting A
show requiring members of thepublic totelephone the studio.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a program in which the audience participates by telephone
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Examples
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On TalkSport on Thursday morning, listeners sprayed about a variety of opinions, a few of them complimentary, about the supposed Mr Grumpy of tennis in a phone-in that resembled a public inquiry into his psyche.
Andy Murray calm before facing Rafael Nadal for a place in the final 2011
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On Thursday, he is expected to give clues to his strategy in a marathon phone-in session with the Russian public that will be televised.
Putin Ally Resigns Russian Parliament Post Alan Cullison 2011
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- Cian, Pip, Tee or any of the phone-in guests make a terrible joke which bombs, and Cian edits out the silence to make it sound less terrible.
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On TalkSport on Thursday morning, listeners sprayed about a variety of opinions, a few of them complimentary, about the supposed Mr Grumpy of tennis in a phone-in that resembled a public inquiry into his psyche.
Andy Murray calm before facing Rafael Nadal for a place in the final 2011
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- Cian, Pip, Tee or any of the phone-in guests make a terrible joke which bombs, and Cian edits out the silence to make it sound less terrible.
TeeMorris.com » Blog Archive » View from the Quad: The MOREVI Exit Interview (Part One) 2009
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The building also had to be evacuated after a phone-in bomb threat.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Most Depressing Thing I Read Today 2009
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Of all the Jungle Book characters Putin could have picked to project himself as the voice of reason during a live, nationally televised 4½-hour phone-in – Baloo, Bagheera, even the man-cub Mowgli – the 30ft python Kaa was not he.
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The e-petition process and the backbench committee have spawned a process in which cross-party issues – often the subjects of passionate phone-in debates – are discussed in the chamber.
E-petitions need to be rethought urgently, says Labour MP 2011
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Over on Radio 4, things were also going a bit 5 Live, with Jane Garvey hosting a phone-in on stay-at-home dads on Woman's Hour.
Rewind radio: 5 Live Sport; Woman's Hour; The Class Ceiling; What's Eating the Museum? 2011
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- Cian, Pip, Tee or any of the phone-in guests make a terrible joke which bombs, and Cian edits out the silence to make it sound less terrible.
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