Associations to the word «Handset»

Wiktionary

HANDSET, noun. The part of a telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.

Dictionary definition

HANDSET, noun. Telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope