pay phone

noun

1. a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pay phone¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Faith Prince got the message at a pay phone on the corner of 75th Street and Broadway.

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“When I use a pay phone, I like to move around, but I also would like to sit, but not completely,” Achille once explained.

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One of the two brothers would travel as far as Peshawar or even Rawalpindi to use a pay phone.

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I'm working at home when I get a frantic call from her — from a pay phone at the store in Beverly Hills.

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Though both Galicot brothers reside in San Diego, their pay-phone empire appears to be a tangled web that spans continents.

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Then he uncoiled himself and ran, downstairs and into the street and to the nearest pay phone.

From Project Gutenberg

Satisfied that Nugent considered the Ewing story dead, Joey left the paper and hurried to a pay-phone.

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Did he say anything about telling a man about going to a pay phone in the building?

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