Phone-in

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A show requiring members of the public to telephone the studio.
  2. 2
    a program in which the audience participates by telephone wordnet
  3. 3
    A protest in which a large number of calls are made to the target.

    "In another demonstration against the broadcast, members of GLAAD participated in a weeklong phone-in protest to the local PBS affiliate and were told a rebroadcast of the film scheduled for March 29 had been canceled."

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"In another demonstration against the broadcast, members of GLAAD participated in a weeklong phone-in protest to the local PBS affiliate and were told a rebroadcast of the film scheduled for March 29 had been canceled."

Etymology

Deverbal from phone in.

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