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dumbphones

dumbphones is the plural of dumbphone.

Meaning of dumbphone

Noun

dumbphone (plural dumbphones)

  1. (informal) A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.
    • The Boring Phone is part of a new dumbphone boom, built on the suspicion of gen Z towards the data- and attention-harvesting technologies they have grown up with.2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    basic phone

Questions about dumbphones

What is dumbphones the plural of?
Dumbphones is the plural of dumbphone.

Words near dumbphones in the dictionary

  1. dumbocrat
  2. dumbocrats
  3. dumbos
  4. dumboy
  5. dumbphone
  6. dumbphones
  7. Dumbrava
  8. Dumbrava Roșie
  9. Dumbrăveni
  10. Dumbrăvești
  11. Dumbrăvița

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