answerphone
A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval.
Noun
- A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval.
- I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.
- It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone. - 2012, Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist:
Origin
From answer + (tele)phone.