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wrong number

noun

(in telephoning)
1. a call made to a number other than the one intended.
2. the number or person reached through such a call.
Slang.
1. the wrong person for a particular task, role, or situation:
  Me cook a gourmet dinner?—You've got the wrong number!
2. an inadequate, disagreeable, or repulsive person:
  She's OK, but her brother's a wrong number.

wrong number

a telephone number wrongly connected or dialled in error or the person so contacted

“You got the wrong number for that,” Det. Johnson told her colleague, Coleman, over the phone while I fed her questions.

Louis said they had no Toots there and Lamb said he was very sorry, that he must have got the wrong number.

I really ought to have been one of the people in the Central Exchange, who give you the wrong number.

The other I discovered, and now occupy, although he gave me both a wrong name and wrong number.

Sometimes he would be summoned to the telephone, only to learn that Central had called the wrong number.

The children are sometimes caught by the wrong number being told to fly.

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