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payphone

/ ˈpeɪˌfəʊn /

noun

  1. a public telephone operated by coins or a phonecard


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They now learned that his real name was Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed and managed to pinpoint him as he made one of his payphone calls.

Operatives figured out how to flash a message on the Jumbotron for him to find a payphone.

I was on a payphone, sitting on the floor in some abandoned corner of the hotel.

We walked into a drugstore and he dropped a nickel into a payphone, hunching the receiver between ear and shoulder.

I worried that there was probably a camera aimed at the payphone he'd used.

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