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payphone
/ ˈɪˌəʊ /
noun
- a public telephone operated by coins or a phonecard
Example Sentences
Brinkley, who grew up in Canoga Park and Malibu, was discovered in 1973 by photographer Errol Sawyer at 19 while waiting for a payphone on a Paris street corner.
He said he had been able to speak to his parents via a prison payphone and described the conversations as "excruciatingly painful".
He walked to a payphone, dialed an aide, and soon a few television and newspaper reporters showed up.
Around 11 p.m. on the night of the infamous Tyson fight, Landrum spotted Alarcon on a payphone outside a Hawthorne tire store, according to the suit.
"And all the way thinking 'No, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it.' But it was like I could not control myself. I had to get to the payphone."
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