pay phone
noun
a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
Also called
pay station.
Origin of pay phone
First recorded in 1935–40
Words nearby pay phone
Example sentences from the Web for pay phone
Though both Galicot brothers reside in San Diego, their pay-phone empire appears to be a tangled web that spans continents.
Satisfied that Nugent considered the Ewing story dead, Joey left the paper and hurried to a pay-phone.
The Prophetic Camera |John McGreevey