Wiktionary
n. 1 A telephone call received from an unfamiliar caller, due to a mistake in the number dialled. 2 (label en idiomatic dated) An incorrect notion or understanding concerning a person or situation.
Wikipedia
A wrong number is a telephone number dialed incorrectly.
Wrong number may also refer to:
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, a video game
- The Wrong Number, teen horror novel by R. L. Stine
- "Wrong Number" (Diagnosis Murder Episode)
- "Wrong Number" (song), a single by The Cure released in 1997
- Wrong Number, a comic strip by Vince Evans
- "Wrong Number" (George Jones song)
- "Wrong Number", two different episodes of ChuckleVision (see List of ChuckleVision episodes)
"Wrong Number" is a song by English rock band The Cure, released as a single on 14 November 1997 from the band's Galore compilation.
Wrong Number also is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language film. The film released on 25 March 2004 in all over Bangladesh. The film directed by Motin Rahman. And produced-distributed by Impress Telefilm Limited. Stars Riaz, Shrabanti, Abdul Qader, Nasir Rahman, Dolly Johur, Tushar Khan, Amol Bosh, Tahsina, Taskina and many more.
"Wrong Number" is a song by American country singer George Jones. Jones composed the song with Dickie Overby. It was released as a promotional single in 1965 and rose to #14 on the Billboard country chart. The song tells the story of a man who, filled with despair, calls his former lover on the telephone because he wants to hear her voice again. However, he dares not speak: "I bite my lip till the blood runs free and keep the words 'I love you' hidden deep, deep inside of me..." The woman assumes it is a wrong number and hangs up. Although not a major hit, "Wrong Number" is another in a long list of obscure George Jones songs that he sings, as Nick Tosches put it in the Texas Monthly in 1994, "as if his soul were on fire."
Category:1964 songs Category:Songs written by George Jones Category:Song recordings produced by Pappy Daily Category:United Artists Records singles
Usage examples of "wrong number".
The lunkhead who dials a wrong number (your number) in the middle of the night and then is sore at you for not being the party he wanted.
If they enter a wrong number the door seals and an alarm is sent to power central.
Was answering an advertisement about typewriting and came to the wrong number -- very pleasant, genteel young woman, sir.
I had three guesses as I picked it up: a wrong number (all wrong numbers are the same person), or Lois, or-I didn't bother to think his name.
One wrong number and a work mate wanting to borrow In The Wee Small Hours on vinyl.
I'd have given the wrong number, and there would have been the deuce to pay.