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payphone
/ ˈpeɪˌfəʊn /
noun
- a public telephone operated by coins or a phonecard
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Example Sentences
They now learned that his real name was Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed and managed to pinpoint him as he made one of his payphone calls.
From The Daily Beast
Operatives figured out how to flash a message on the Jumbotron for him to find a payphone.
From The Daily Beast
I was on a payphone, sitting on the floor in some abandoned corner of the hotel.
From The Daily Beast
We walked into a drugstore and he dropped a nickel into a payphone, hunching the receiver between ear and shoulder.
From Project Gutenberg
I worried that there was probably a camera aimed at the payphone he'd used.
From Project Gutenberg
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