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Ameche en · NOUN

Etymology

After Don Ameche, who played Alexander Graham Bell in a 1939 film.

Meanings

  1. (US, dated, slang) A telephone.
    • "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. 2002, Richard W. McBurney, Bag Men: Mosaics, Trafford (self-published), page 266 http://google.com/books?id=y9ycPsYg9koC&pg=PA266&dq=ameche
    • Tell the asshole to take the fuckin' cigar out of his mouth and get on the Ameche. 1992, Robert Ludlum, The Road to Omaha, Bantam, published 1993, →ISBN, page 239:
    • "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." 2004, Tim Dorsey, Cadillac Beach, →ISBN, page 214:

Forms

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the Ameche canonical lexicographic
Ameches Number=Plur lexicographic

wikipedia: en:The Story of Alexander Graham Bell · wikipedia: Alexander Graham Bell · wikipedia: Don Ameche