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See also: Obama Phone
English
Etymology
Coined during the Obama administration, which conservatives believed was giving minorities free Lifeline Program phones.
Noun
Obama phone (plural Obama phones)
- (US) A cellphone provided as part of the United States Lifeline Program.
- 2012 September 29, [Tor] Sir Gregory Hall, Esq., “Emmett's "Obama phone"”, in alt.usenet.kooks (Usenet):
- Here's Emmett's mother touting the virtues of her "Obama phone"
- 2013, Steve De France, Because I Can’t Whistle, Xlibris, page 102:
- Outside / brown & broken teeth / gasp out brainless twaddle. / into their Obama phones.
- 2014, Darlene Pollock, Logan Pollock, Invasive Species, Part I, Trafford Publishing, page 31:
- “ […] . Get yourself one of those Obama phones, Romeo,”
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