Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A telephone that has a direct connection to an important caller, or is only used for important calls
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From bat- + phone, after Commissioner Gordon's secure line to the Batphone in the 1960s-era Batman television show.
