Meanings
nountelephone jack (plural telephone jacks)
plural telephone jacks
- A jack on a wall used to connect a telephone to the telephone line.
I stood up and the suddenness of my movement yanked the telephone jack out of its socket.
2002, Kamila Shamsie, Kartography, Bloomsbury (2003), pages 336-337
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