payphone
Etymology
pay + phone.
noun
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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.You called me from a payphone / They still got payphones / It costs a dollar a minute / To tell me you're getting sober 2020, “Kyoto”, in Punisher, performed by Phoebe Bridgers
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