payphone

• pay phone

pay +‎ phone.

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.

   • 2020, “Kyoto”, in Punisher, performed by Phoebe Bridgers:

     You called me from a payphone / They still got payphones / It costs a dollar a minute / To tell me you're getting sober

• tickey box (South Africa)

• telephone booth, telephone box, telephone kiosk

• payphone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• hypopnea