(idiomatic) A situation in which a person unsuccessfully attempts to contact another person by telephone and leaves a message instead, and in which the second person then unsuccessfully attempts to return the initial call and leaves a message for the first person, and so on as if the two are playing a game of tag in which the most recent person to have been left with a message is now designated as "it" (i.e. as the player now obliged to chase the other and to attempt anew to make contact).

(telephony) Alternative spelling of radiotelephone

plural of radio-telephone

mobile phone, cell phone

plural of telephone card

plural of white telephone

Synonym of phone sex

A method of transmission of information non-locally, allowing FTL communication and back-in-time communication, through application of Steven Weinberg's proposed non-linear fields in quantum physics on entangled particles, accessing hidden variables of the Schrödinger equation.

(derogatory) Italian light-comedy and melodramatic films from the Fascist period.

plural of telephone desk