Ameche

English

Etymology

After Don Ameche, who played Alexander Graham Bell in a 1939 film.

Noun

the Ameche (plural Ameches)

  1. (US, dated, slang) A telephone.
    • 1992, Robert Ludlum, The Road to Omaha‎[1], Bantam, published 1993, →ISBN, page 239:
      Tell the asshole to take the fuckin' cigar out of his mouth and get on the Ameche.
    • 2002, Richard W. McBurney, Bag Men: Mosaics, Trafford (self-published), →ISBN, page 266 [2]:
      "Sweetheart, bring me the Ameche, please." His face had a foolish smile.
      Untangling the twenty foot extension cord, Alice Lynn placed the telephone in front of her husband.
    • 2004, Tim Dorsey, Cadillac Beach‎[3], →ISBN, page 214:
      "He was mixing with some trouble boys on the flimflam, putting screws to a Peterman after the box job."
      "How'd you hear?"
      "Jawed with him on the Ameche."

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