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pay phone
noun as in pay telephone
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I went to a pay phone and called a Chrysler expert I knew about.
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He went to find a pay phone so he could call his loved ones and tell them he was OK.
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“You could make a chance contact at any pay phone, but the odds of reaching someone out in the desert are incredibly remote,” he said.
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Along a line of wooden power poles running to the horizon in both directions, 14 miles from the nearest paved road, a solitary pay phone beckons with the shrill sound of impatient civilization.
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On top of the pay phone perches a nude Barbie doll.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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