Definition of "cell phone" []

• A cellular telephone. (noun)

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• "I had monitored Hoyt's cell phone transmissions using a Cellmate cellular radio monitoring system, aided by a cellular gain antenna."
• "At Milbridge, maybe eighty miles from Lubec, the cell phone rang for the third time."
• "Then I headed for the front door and I noticed two things—the window behind the futon-couch was wide-open with no screen and it led to a fire escape, which would make the place pretty vulnerable to a break-in, though the unlocked door made things even easier, and I also saw that there was a cell phone on the coffee table."