Ma Bell

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Ma Bell

  1. (US, telecommunications, informal, historical) Collectively, the family of companies associated with American Telephone & Telegraph, providing telephone service in the United States for many years through 1983.
    • 1994, “Get it together”, in Ill Communication, performed by Beastie Boys:
      Like Ma Bell, I've Got The Ill Communications

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