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cell-phoned

cell-phoned adjective: with a cell phone or phones. Also the simple past and past participle of cell-phone.

Adjective

cell-phoned (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) With a cell phone or phones.
    • It [the bomb] had been placed near an elevated railway at South Quay, in London’s Docklands, where the ghosts of cockney porters meet the cell-phoned Yuppies of modern Britain.1996, Gerald Stone, editor, The Bulletin with Newsweek, volume 116, numbers 6004–6011, Sydney, N.S.W.: ACP Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67
    • To see this new Nashville in action, go to the Pancake Pantry, a dressed-down version of the Polo Lounge, any morning and fight past the cell-phoned agents and stars munching and making deals.1996 October 7, Keith Gould, “On the Suits Road: Gone Country”, in Craig Reiss, editor, Adweek, volume 46, New York, N.Y.: ASM Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 1

Also used as

cell-phoned is also the simple past and past participle of cell-phone.

Examples of cell-phoned in a sentence

  • The men and women who walk here are an unassuming lot, less the cell-phoned swells of the new Bryant Park than nine-to-fivers needing a smoke.1998 August 7, Thomas Mallon, “My Manhattan: Once-Famous Faces Watch Over a Park”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York...
  • These cell-phoned crowds are activist but not militant; today’s “mobe” is no mob.2000 April 13, William Safire, “Essay: Here Come the Big Parades”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...
  • Where are the lyrics that speak to a micro-chipped, dot-commed, cell-phoned, video-crazed, Starbucks-bloated world?2000 September 2, Clyde Haberman, “NYC: Now, Joe Hill Would Have Carpal Tunnel”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...
  • She came running through the crowd dodging the cell-phoned heads, exquisitely attired as usual, probably the result of a recent shopping excursion at Fendi’s.2008, Lloyd Mardis, chapter 39, in Beneath the Mirror (Samantha King Mystery Series; 1), Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 204:

Forms of cell-phoned

alternative formcellphoned

Origin of cell-phoned

From cell phone (noun) + -ed (“having”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about cell-phoned

What does cell-phoned mean?
Cell-phoned means with a cell phone or phones.
How do you use cell-phoned in a sentence?
The men and women who walk here are an unassuming lot, less the cell-phoned swells of the new Bryant Park than nine-to-fivers needing a smoke.
What part of speech is cell-phoned?
Cell-phoned is an adjective.

Words near cell-phoned in the dictionary

  1. cell-mediated immune responses
  2. cell-mediated immunities
  3. cell-mediated immunity
  4. cell-oriented programming
  5. cell-phone
  6. cell-phoned
  7. cell-phones
  8. cell-phoning
  9. cell-spot
  10. cell-spots
  11. cell-wall

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