batphone

batphone
n
British
a.
a walkie-talkie
b.
a mobile telephone
The nickname, inspired by the gadget fea-tured in the Batman TV series of the 1960s, was first recorded among police of-ficers in the early 1990s. Squawker is a synonym.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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