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speed dial
1noun
- a telephone feature by which telephone numbers can be stored in memory and rapidly dialed by pressing an assigned button.
speed-dial
2[ speed-dahy-uhl, -dahyl ]
verb (used with object)
speed-dialed, speed-dialing or (especially British) speed-dialled, speed-dialling.
- to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of speed dial1
First recorded in 1980–85
Origin of speed dial2
First recorded in 1980–85
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A cage footballer for hire, a pick-up game artist on speed dial.
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The Trade Commissioner said UK-EU relations were "definitely" in a better placeand his UK counterpart Nick Thomas-Symonds was "on speed dial".
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“If I were a celebrity who attended one of Diddy’s ‘freak-offs,’ I would ... have my lawyer on speed dial,†Rahmani said.
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He also has the King of Spain on speed dial.
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During the years that followed, I met dozens of Americans who had made activism their new hobby: protests every weekend, regular visits to their congressman’s local office, senators on speed dial.
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