Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a coin-operated telephone.

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  • noun a coin-operated telephone

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Examples

  • Nail is a black-owned investment company, controlling 65 percent of Newshelf's equity, and recently took over Johnnic, which controls the TV pay-station M-Net and the Times Media Ltd newspapers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Shirley gave a quick call for "Information," and after several minutes learned that the call came from a drug store pay-station in Jersey City!

    The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

  • I got into the habit of always carrying plenty of nickels in my pockets so that I could use pay-station telephones wherever I might be.

    How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling Frank Bettger 1947

  • I got into the habit of always carrying plenty of nickels in my pockets so that I could use pay-station telephones wherever I might be.

    How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling Frank Bettger 1947

  • I got into the habit of always carrying plenty of nickels in my pockets so that I could use pay-station telephones wherever I might be.

    How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling Frank Bettger 1947

  • "You were not in the room this afternoon when I spoke of a telephone call I had received from a pay-station at Sutter and Kearny Streets."

    The Chinese Parrot Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1926

  • In Boston, the first pay-station ran three months before it earned a dollar.

    The History of the Telephone Herbert Newton Casson 1910

  • In Boston, the first pay-station ran three months before it earned a dollar.

    The History of the Telephone 1910

  • Zita, hurrying out from the conservatory, and wishing to waste not an instant in notifying Balcom, sought a near-by telephone pay-station, and there in frantic haste she demanded Balcom's number.

    The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908

  • "Central told me there had not been a call from this pay-station for half an hour."

    The Dream Doctor 1908

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