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payphone

/ ˈɪˌəʊ /

noun

  1. a public telephone operated by coins or a phonecard
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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He said he had been able to speak to his parents via a prison payphone and described the conversations as "excruciatingly painful".

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He walked to a payphone, dialed an aide, and soon a few television and newspaper reporters showed up.

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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.

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"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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