payphone
Britishnoun
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"And all the way thinking 'No, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it.' But it was like I could not control myself. I had to get to the payphone."
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
I had to be told how to use the payphone.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Inspired by projects like the wind phone, a disconnected payphone in a garden in Ōtsuchi, Japan, where people can call the deceased, Ketcher decided to just do it herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
My mother used a payphone to call the store's security office and "confess" to her accidental shoplifting.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
And I used a payphone to call the police.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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