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bell; give a bell
verb
to telephone someone US
An allusion to Alexander Graham Bell, telephone pioneer, and/or to the bell that rang on early telephones.- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 14, 1973
- Alright. Give us a tanner and I’ll give him a bell. — Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I, 1987
- [W]ithout much further ado I belled our local Ombudsperson. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 40, 1994
- It seemed to Zaffir that she only ever belled him for a whinge. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 13, 1997
- [T]he publican will be belling the boys in blue[.] — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 35, 1999
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