telephone pole

noun

chiefly US
: a tall wooden pole that supports the wires of a telephone system

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The truck then ricocheted to the northbound side of the road and stopped after striking a telephone pole, according to police. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2025 Later, high atop a telephone pole, Alyssa retrieves a valuable pair of dangling Jordans off a live electrical wire, to mixed results. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025 In Grand Junction, Colo., a shiny new police car drove into a municipal parking lot on a routine assignment, slowly cruised around as the driver checked the left side and his companion checked the right, smacked head-on into a telephone pole. John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 Still, some observers sense something a bit sinister behind the playfulness of contest after contest, advertised with poster after poster on telephone pole after telephone pole. Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for telephone pole

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“Telephone pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20pole. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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