Definition of "phone-in" [phone-in]

• A show requiring members of the public to telephone the studio. (noun)

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• "The e-petition process and the backbench committee have spawned a process in which cross-party issues – often the subjects of passionate phone-in debates – are discussed in the chamber."
• "Of all the Jungle Book characters Putin could have picked to project himself as the voice of reason during a live, nationally televised 4½-hour phone-in – Baloo, Bagheera, even the man-cub Mowgli – the 30ft python Kaa was not he."
• "Over on Radio 4, things were also going a bit 5 Live, with Jane Garvey hosting a phone-in on stay-at-home dads on Woman's Hour."