cellular phone

noun

variants or less commonly cellular telephone

chiefly US

: cell phone

Have you ever tried typing a Web address on the keypad of a cellular phone?

—Mark Alpert, Scientific American, April 2001

Techies love their gadgets, most especially their cellular telephones.

—Thomas E. Weber, Wall Street Journal, 20 Nov. 1997

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

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