telephone pole

noun

1. a utility pole for supporting telephone wires.

Word History and Origins

Origin of telephone pole¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

One driver swerved off the road to avoid him, crashing into a telephone pole.

From Washington Post

They were greeted by a geyser of steam as tall as a telephone pole shooting out of the hole.

From ProPublica

In lawsuits filed over the past week, Indianapolis and four other Indiana cities say that companies like Netflix should pay a “right of way” tax for accessing municipal telephone infrastructure like cables and telephone poles.

From Fortune

Finally—his eyes on me instead of where he was going—he drove into a telephone pole with a horrifying crash.

From The Daily Beast

She was found slumped over the wheel in her Mercedes coupe, which had crashed into a telephone pole.

From The Daily Beast

Just across the alley from this point, Black Hood spied a wood telephone pole.

From Project Gutenberg

The machine halted, but with a telephone-pole almost between the front wheels!

From Project Gutenberg

A bird hovered above a telephone pole, its wings glued to the blue vault of the sky.

From Project Gutenberg

"Bump," it went up against a telephone pole and the wind left it there.

From Project Gutenberg

I remember one picture he took of a wheat straw that was driven into a telephone pole.

From Project Gutenberg