pay phone
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pay phone
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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His chief of staff, horrified at her role in actually getting him elected, moans, “I got him that toy phone and told him he was tweeting on it.”
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2021
Our conversation is interrupted every ten minutes by phone phreaks from all over the country ringing Joe on just about every piece of equipment but the toy phone and the Braille typewriter.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2011
The pitch notes went over the line and entered the mechanism, making the contacts within it that dialed the number he had dialed on the toy phone.
From The Man Who Staked the Stars by Dye, Charles
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