Colorful slang for a toilet bowl, specifically in the context of someone vomiting into it after drinking too much. The imagery is instantly clear — you're hunched over, 'calling' into the bowl with your head bowed as if having a very intense conversation. Phrases like 'talking to the big white telephone' or 'calling Ralph on the big white telephone' turn the undignified reality of getting sick into something almost darkly poetic.
He spent most of the night on his knees talking to the big white telephone after those last four shots.
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(slang) A toilet, as a receptacle for vomiting.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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