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cellphoning

cellphoning is the present participle and gerund of cellphone.

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

Questions about cellphoning

What is cellphoning the present participle and gerund of?
Cellphoning is the present participle and gerund of cellphone.

Words near cellphoning in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cellphoning (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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