PAY-PHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pay-phone mean? 

• PAY-PHONE (noun)
  The noun PAY-PHONE has 1 sense:

1. a coin-operated telephone

  Familiarity information: PAY-PHONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAY-PHONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coin-operated telephone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pay-phone; pay-station

Hypernyms ("pay-phone" is a kind of...):

phone; telephone; telephone set (electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds)