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payphone

/ ˈpeɪˌfəʊn /

noun

  1. a public telephone operated by coins or a phonecard

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The query is repeated, monotone into a payphone, by actor Kristen Stewart, who appears on the song and in the David Lynch-ian fever dream of a video for “Who Laughs Last.”

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Brinkley, who grew up in Canoga Park and Malibu, was discovered in 1973 by photographer Errol Sawyer at 19 while waiting for a payphone on a Paris street corner.

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He said he had been able to speak to his parents via a prison payphone and described the conversations as "excruciatingly painful".

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He walked to a payphone, dialed an aide, and soon a few television and newspaper reporters showed up.

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Around 11 p.m. on the night of the infamous Tyson fight, Landrum spotted Alarcon on a payphone outside a Hawthorne tire store, according to the suit.

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