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  • noun Plural form of phonebook.

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Examples

  • Before the days of online social networks, people often searched print databases, such as phonebooks, looking for shared names.

    Rocket News 2009

  • Set your terms and let publishers decide whether or not to meet those terms. on a comics note, this reminds me a LOT of the dispute between Dave Sim and Diamond on whether Sim should sell Cerebus phonebooks through Diamond.

    Amazon Pulls First Second Books, Other Macmillan Titles » Comics Worth Reading 2010

  • Kem Meyer posted the Indexed card below which made me think of how phonebooks can help us learn about and reach our culture.

    Let’s build a giant fort with them! 2010

  • Needs “Deli Tickets” at the top right and “Encyclopedias” at the top left. phonebooks: Rooboobrainz Says:

    Let’s build a giant fort with them! 2010

  • Set up a ballistic gel test or use wet phonebooks or sumething, then test test test with all types and fired at different speeds etc. like they do with riflebullets .. measure and compare and test extensively and come to your own conclutions based on the test results ..

    Mechanical Broadhead Debate 2009

  • Five years later played for The Age newspaper — we beat the Herald Sun but were put in our place by the Yellow Pages boys (I swear they only sent the guys who packed the phonebooks onto pellets).

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 12 March 2010

  • Set up a ballistic gel test or use wet phonebooks or sumething, then test test test with all types and fired at different speeds etc. like they do with riflebullets .. measure and compare and test extensively and come to your own conclutions based on the test results ..

    Mechanical Broadhead Debate 2009

  • There is no thumping and reading from phonebooks and stuff.

    Eight Dem Senators Defend the Right to Filibuster Climate Change 2010

  • There is no thumping and reading from phonebooks and stuff.

    Eight Dem Senators Defend the Right to Filibuster Climate Change 2010

  • District Court in Alexandria less than a week after his wife admitted her guilt and described how the couple and third alleged conspirator -- who remains at large -- scrolled through names in phonebooks to target what they believed to be Indian homes.

    Second guilty plea in Va. gold heists 2010

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