Definition of "payphone" [payphone]

• A public telephone that requires pre-payment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card (noun)

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• "The payphone is the twenty-first century horse-trough."
• "Promptly at two, he called the payphone outside Bloomingdale’s."
• "The payphone was the type that only took dollars for every call, and frequently did funky things like drop calls or simply not work or return any change."