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- noun Plural form of
payphone .
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Examples
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Having a dead phone (and no charger!) in an area with no payphones is an enormous headache.
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Plaid’s Westminster candidate for Ynys Mon, Dylan Rees has today voiced his opposition to BT plans to remove over 40 payphones from the island.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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However, homeless advocate Greg Frazier said the idea to eliminate the payphones is a direct assault on Jacksonville poorest and most needy.
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However, homeless advocate Greg Frazier said the idea to eliminate the payphones is a direct assault on Jacksonville poorest and most needy.
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In the following months Marri placed calls from payphones in the Peoria area to members of al-Qaeda, sometimes traveling as far as 150 miles from his home to elude detection.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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In the following months Marri placed calls from payphones in the Peoria area to members of al-Qaeda, sometimes traveling as far as 150 miles from his home to elude detection.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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One in three payphones in the city's busiest underground subway stations didn't work last summer, according to a report released Tuesday by the Straphangers Campaign, a rider-advocacy group.
Subway's Payphone Gap Andrew Grossman 2011
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I'd lost my cellphone the week before somewhere on a bender, and had been reduced to using payphones ever since.
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The novelist Mark Winegardner, a veteran of the retreat circuit (he calls Yaddo his "go-to colony"), looks back with a certain fondness on the pre-Internet days, though he acknowledged the "anxiety and friction" among artists as they lined up after dinner to use payphones.
Retreats Surrender to Wi-Fi Steven Kurutz 2010
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Phone network NTT is allowing users to make calls from all payphones in eastern Japan for free, according to a Tech journalist on Twitter.
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