WordNet
n. an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line [syn: extension, telephone extension]
Usage examples of "extension phone".
Jacques, getting out of the chair and walking rapidly down to an extension phone by the pool.
Grace grabbed the extension phone as the desk guard got on the radio.
He went out on to the balcony, and while he sat sipping and nibbling, he stared at the extension phone.
Now she wondered if someone had been on the telephone line with her, listening on an extension phone in another part of the house.
Then she moved dazedly for the extension phone that stood on a small table in the hall.
I told it to transmit a constant dial tone to the phone's earpiece and filter it from both the recording and the extension phone in my bedroom here in Nova Scotia.
Vinnie was so anxious to get it over with that he did not recognize one more soft click as the upstairs extension phone was lifted.
Now it was a routine and almost unthinking operation to run his hand down the power cord and tug it loose from the wall socket, and then to reach over and also pull the cord of the extension phone out of its wall jack.
Loomis entered the booth at once, sat in a chair set up in front of an extension phone.
The instant he heard it ringing on the other end, he handed the receiver to Halloway and picked up an extension phone.