payphone

Noun

Meaning

payphone (plural payphones)

A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.
I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

number line call cell booth telephone calling cabin kiosk phone landline cellphone called pay phone hailer
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Antonyms

hang up the receiver put down the phone hang up the phone

Phrases with the word

from a payphone

Anagrams

hypopnea

Examples

Telstra payphone with Telstra Air WiFi hotspot Telstra is Australia's incumbent and largest provider of fixed-line services. Source: Internet

This balance can be read by a public payphone machine when the card is inserted into the payphone's card reader. Source: Internet

Some carriers have been known to disable payphone calls to 958 or 959 test lines, such as Bell Canada's system-wide ANAC line at (area code) 958-2580. Source: Internet

"The living room, with its leather sofa from Harrods, payphone and glass coffee table, is the pièce de résistance," My friend the high-flying dole cheat, The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, August 14, 1996. Source: Internet

And then you run to a payphone and you… Well, payphones, unless, I don’t know. Source: Internet

Where a payphone does not have any number listed on the unit, the number can be discovered by calling an ANAC service. Source: Internet

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