bat phone , auch: batphone

About 40 minutes later the "bat phone" screams out from the centre of the room.

A bat phone often has some or all of the following properties:

Bat phones can also provide direct access to politicians or notable people.

Then they disposed of the bat phone with its incriminating call history.

Aides read important documents to him first thing in the morning, sometimes over what he and his staff jokingly call the bat phone.

Pick up the bat phone, call Medvedev, tell him where its headed, and launch.

This is often referred to internally as a Bat Phone.

But Edwards evaded the attempt, telling Young to keep a "bat phone" on him.

There was no reaching for the Bat Phone as he parred the first and second in comfortable style.

Bat phones are common in many industries.

Send them to the Bat phone.

A bat phone, in business jargon, is a private telephone number that is handled at a higher priority than a public line.

After that, Edwards communicated with Hunter through a special "bat phone," Young said.

There were at least five big takeovers between March and November 2007 about which information was supplied in advance by what they called the "bat phone".

Forget Octopussy, Greeks and bat phones.

So, it's unclear today what sort of direct, emergency Bat Phone type communication channels exist between Tehran and Washington.

Most notably, the scenes featuring a special hotline to owner Kerry Packer triggered many memories of the red handset they all called "the bat phone."

Paramedics called the bat phone on behalf of Katz, and by the time he got to New Bern, the hospitals catheterization team was waiting for him.

An emergency number is distributed to peacekeepers that can transform a humble cell phone into a "bat phone" capable of sending an SOS to soldiers.

Ken Moelis Waits for Bat Phone to Ring as Wall Street Rebounds.

Bigcommerce, based in Sydney, Australia, created the numerical riddle which when solved generates a secret number leading to a special 'Bat phone' in the company's office.

Make people think you have a bat phone in your car by calling them next to a loud electric fan, asking them to repeat everything they say and then hanging up half way through their reply.

But some calls are even more important, as Vanclief discovered recently when his Bat Phone rang and a voice at the other end inquired whether it was the correct number for locating bathroom supplies.

Just in time for the first pitch, MLB.com has released its 2010 At Bat phone apps, with versions for the iPhone and BlackBerry Storm 1 and 2 and Android phones.