Definitions
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- noun a
public telephone that requires pre-payment to operate, generally via the insertion ofcoins or acredit card
Etymologies
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Examples
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The payphone is the twenty-first century horse-trough.
Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives 2002
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Promptly at two, he called the payphone outside Bloomingdale’s.
A STRANGER IS WATCHING MARY HIGGINS CLARK 1977
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The payphone was the type that only took dollars for every call, and frequently did funky things like drop calls or simply not work or return any change.
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Cavazos speaks English, Spanish, and French, and is inviting everyone to call the payphone using Skype for a quick chat.
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These tenders would include services such as payphone installation, cleaning, gardening, pest control, office plant maintenance, window cleaning, construction and security.
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Prepaid services have been further adapted to offer mobile 'payphone' services.
Mobile Africa 2009
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Prepaid services have been further adapted to offer mobile 'payphone' services.
Mobile Africa 2009
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Prepaid services have been further adapted to offer mobile 'payphone' services.
Mobile Africa 2009
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"You could go around the world five or six times," Jobs says, "and then you could call the payphone next door.
News 2011
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Montgomery County police said Bernardo Paz Flores-Olvera, 32, called 911 from a payphone moments before midnight.
Md. man allegedly kills wife Debbi Wilgoren 2011
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