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cellphoned

cellphoned is the alternative form of cell-phoned.

cellphoned is the simple past and past participle of cellphone.

Meaning of cell-phoned

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

Meaning of cellphone

Verb

cellphone (third-person singular simple present cellphones, present participle cellphoning, simple past and past participle cellphoned)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To make a call to (someone) on a cellphone.
    • They stood on line, and slept and ate and cellphoned, all night and into the day.2003, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record

Origin of cellphoned

From cellphone (noun) + -ed (“having”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about cellphoned

What is cellphoned the alternative form of?
Cellphoned is the alternative form of cell-phoned.

Words near cellphoned in the dictionary

  1. cellotriosyls
  2. cellotropin
  3. cellphone
  4. cellphone lot
  5. cellphone lots
  6. cellphoned
  7. cellphones
  8. cellphoning
  9. cells
  10. cells of Deiters
  11. Cells River

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cellphoned (page history and authors); cell-phoned (page history and authors); cellphone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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