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PAY-PHONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pay-phone mean?
• PAY-PHONE (noun)
The noun PAY-PHONE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: PAY-PHONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A coin-operated telephone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
pay-phone; pay-station
Hypernyms ("pay-phone" is a kind of...):
phone; telephone; telephone set (electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds)
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