WordNet
n. the telephone wire that connects to the handset [syn: phone cord]
Usage examples of "telephone cord".
The stretching telephone cord knocked over a salt shaker, spilling salt on the countertop.
Alone in the conference room, he sat down at the table, removed an EncryptionLok-3 from his pocket, attached it to the telephone cord on the same phone over which he had received the bad news from General Harris in Incirlik, and told the signal operator to get General Komulakov on the line.
She wasn't going to talk to Aunt Flo, not tonight, because the telephone cord had pulled out.
Whenever Qwilleran talked into the instrument, Koko untied his shoelaces or bit the telephone cord.
I once had a case, this guy strangled his wife with the telephone cord.
Whenever Qwilleran talked into the instrument, Koko un- tied his shoelaces or bit the telephone cord.
George Stark swept the straight-razor through the kinked telephone cord.
He saw a kinky purple bracelet around her wrist - it looked almost like a short length of telephone cord.
She replaced the receiver and gave the telephone cord a little looping flap, pulling the length of it toward her.
A length of telephone cord was dangling down the side, coiled in a tiny noose.
Scott had stretched the telephone cord down the hallway and into his bedroom.
I paced quietly forth and back, a half-circle on the tether of the telephone cord.
Not satisfied, Rosenberg removed a second electronic device from his briefcase and used a clip to attach it to an eighth-inch section of exposed wires on the telephone cord.