yellow pages
Noun
Meaning
yellow pages (plural yellow pages)
A telephone directory that lists commercial organizations, organized by type of organization.
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Because in the yellow pages if you looked, say, under drugstores, you'd find the first one would be Acme Drugs.
John Wiley and Sons. p. V. National Trust for Historic Preservation and Zagars, J. (1997) Preservation Yellow Pages: The Complete Information Source for Homeowners, Communities, and Professionals.
Origin A real-world advertisement for ACME anvils The name Acme became popular for businesses by the 1920s, when alphabetized business telephone directories such as the Yellow Pages began to be widespread.
A patent holding company named Geomas has the rights to a broad and obvious patent on location-based search that just about every local search or online yellow pages site probably violates.
How much time did he waste trudging around bookshops to find a copy of that elusive angling book before it occurred to him to use Yellow Pages and pick up the phone?
Ten minutes later the scribe handed me a wad of yellow pages and said, “Memorize this.”