pay phone

noun

: a usually coin-operated public telephone

Examples of pay phone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This was a man who ran a million-dollar operation from a pay phone on a street corner. Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024 Hallock passed several houses, a pay phone, and then turned off the highway just before a major hospital. Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024 Hera makes a call from an ancient relic from years past — a pay phone! — to a child of hers. Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024 Forty years ago today, former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called his wife, Josephine, from a pay phone in Bloomfield Township to say he had been stood up at an afternoon meeting with two mobsters. John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for pay phone 

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Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pay phone was in 1936

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“Pay phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay%20phone. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.

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