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rolodex
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rolodex \Rol"o*dex\ (r[^o]l"[-o]*d[e^]ks), a. [Trade Mark of Newell Office Products.] A trade name for a type of card file; as, a Rolodex(R) card file. Also used informally and improperly as a noun meaning Rolodex(R) card file.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1958, said to be from rolling + index.
Wikipedia
A Rolodex is a rotating file device used to store business contact information (the name is a portmanteau word of rolling and index) with classic replicas manufactured by Newell Rubbermaid. The Rolodex holds specially shaped index cards; the user writes or types the contact information for one person or company onto each card. The cards are notched to be able to be snapped in and out of the rotating spindle. Some users tape the contact's business card directly to the Rolodex index card, or a plastic or vinyl sleeve in the shape of a Rolodex card to place the business card within. Some companies produced business cards in the shape of Rolodex cards, as a marketing idea.
The Rolodex was invented in 1956, by the Danish engineer Hildaur Neilsen, the chief engineer of Zephyr American, a stationery manufacturer in New York. First marketed in 1958, it was an improvement to an earlier design called the Wheeldex. Zephyr American also invented, manufactured and sold the Autodex, a spring-operated phone directory that automatically opened to the selected letter, Swivodex, an inkwell that did not spill, Punchodex, a paper hole puncher, and Clipodex, an office aid that attached to a stenographer's knee.
The name rolodex has become somewhat genericized for any personal organizer performing this function, or as a metonym for the sum total of an individual's accumulated business contacts.
Usage examples of "rolodex".
Hal spits Kodiak tobacco juice into an old rocket-emblazoned NASA glass on the bedside table, idly and for no special reason riffling through densely packed letters tri-folded and packed upright, a kind of Rolodex of different mementos and postal correspondence Mario's rescued from wastebaskets and recycling bins and dumpsters and quietly saved in shoeboxes.
I got out my Rolodex, got on the phone, and left two messages with two answering machines.
It looked like his business files were still intact, but all of his personal effects had been removed: the photograph of his kids that had sat on his desk, his leather-bound appointment calendar, ad-dress book, Rolodex, even the framed APSCRAP and MDRT awards he'd gotten some years before.
The reception desk was formed by a twelve-inch writing surface mounted on the lower half of the Dutch door that separated the miniature lobby from the office where I could see the usual equipment: desk, file cabinets, typewriter, cash register, Rolodex, receipt ledger, and the big reservations book she was consulting in response to her caller's inquiry.
The workspace was clear except for a telephone, a file holder, a Rolodex, and a desk calendar—.
We don't exchange Christmas cards or share instant messaging, and he's totally out of my Rolodex.
Tango was the standard phonetic alphabet correspondent to the letter T, T was the twentieth letter in the alphabet and the first names Stanonik had read over the radio were from the T section of the gold Rolodex, apparently arranged randomly and read in a certain pre-arranged order.
So he waited out his flock of shivers and then he pulled his Rolodex over in front of him and found Thad's telephone number.
Macon tried to invent a need for a rusty metal Rolodex file he found in a heap of tire chains.
Much as she hated to make public the news that there was a vicious prankster in the fort-or a perpetrator whose motives were as unknown as his identity-before she'd had a chance to work it out, she culled through Lanny's Rolodex and called half a dozen of the most pertinent names: a sister in Philadelphia, a son who worked for Goldman Sachs in Vero Beach, Lanny's general practitioner in Key West and the Chief Ranger of Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks in Homestead, Florida.