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baby bell

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English

Syllables
baby -bell
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the Regional Bell Operating Companies resulting from the division of AT&T Corporation into a number of smaller companies in the 1980s as part of an antitrust agreement.

American usage; Informal

Usage

Inflected Forms

Baby Bells (plural)

Phrases

Baby Blue Ma Bell

Frequently Paired Words

Baby Blue Babyflot Ma Bell RBOC

Questions

What does baby bell mean?
Any of the Regional Bell Operating Companies resulting from the division of AT&T Corporation into a number of smaller companies in the 1980s as part of an antitrust agreement.

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