Meaning of hello girl | Babel Free

Definitions

A female telephone operator.

dated, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“The latest model⟳ of the multiple switch-board is in position, and in a few days the "Hello" girls will render complete⟳ the inside view⟳ of a modern telephone exchange⟳.”

“Surely, we must include⟳ the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add⟳ the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the "hello-girl" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise⟳ to give⟳ us telephone service at half the present⟳ rates, it will afford⟳ us an illustration of "applied science," which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.”

“The humblest hello-girl along ten thousand miles of wire could teach⟳ gentleness, patience, modesty, manners, to the highest duchess in Arthur's land⟳.”

“Now imagine⟳ that the main automatic exchange⟳ is out of service and all those calls have⟳ to be made the old-fashioned way, by hello girls, taking ten times as long.”

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