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payphones

payphones is the plural of payphone.

Meaning of payphone

Noun

payphone (plural payphones)

  1. A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.
    • I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab.
    Synonyms:
    tickey box

Questions about payphones

What is payphones the plural of?
Payphones is the plural of payphone.

Words near payphones in the dictionary

  1. PayPaling
  2. PayPalled
  3. PayPalling
  4. PayPals
  5. payphone
  6. payphones
  7. paypig
  8. paypigs
  9. paypoint
  10. paypoints
  11. payraise

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