Telephone Collectors International

Bell System Slang

• Barn Door sets = 2851 or similar 6 or 10-button set. for 1A2 Key System use
• Bean, beanie, good-n-plenty, dolphin = B-wire connector
• Biscuit = surface mount jack
• Bitch Clamp = The three bolt suspension clamp used to attach the messenger strand to a pole. So named because of what the lineman yells when he hits it with his knee.
• Butt-set (or butt-in or buttinski) = a handheld portable telephone used by installers and linemen.
• Cigar box = 105 apparatus box
• Cuckoo clock = 851/2851 series of wall key sets
• Donkey dick = re-enterable buried enclosure
• Green Weenie = a service pedestal
• Kerchunker = 3M model E9C splicing gun
• Lunchbox = pole-mounted 104- or 105-type 11- 16- or 25-pair terminal
• Mushroom = wiring spool
• Outhouse = booth
• Parker rack = 23inch rack about 6 feet tall. (Who was Parker, anyway?)
• Roach clip = 419A test clip
• Shoebox = 551 type KSU
• Snot cap = gel-filled binding post protector
• Tombstone = 23inch apparatus cabinet of various heights and depths
• Tub = 16-type apparatus mounting