payphone

See also: pay phone

English

pay +‎ phone.

payphone (plural payphones)

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

a public telephone

Armenian: տաքսաֆոն (hy) (takʿsafon)
Bulgarian: телефонен автомат (telefonen avtomat)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 公用電話／公用电话 (zh) (gōngyòng diànhuà)
Danish: mønttelefon (da) c
Finnish: rahapuhelin, yleisöpuhelin (fi)
German: Münztelefon (de) n, Münzfernsprecher (de) m
Hungarian: nyilvános telefon (hu)
Indonesian: telepon umum
Japanese: 公衆電話 (ja) (こうしゅうでんわ, kōshū denwa)
Korean: 공중전화 (ko) (gongjungjeonhwa)
Polish: telefon samoinkasujący m, automat telefoniczny m, automat (pl) m
Russian: таксофо́н (ru) m (taksofón), телефо́н-автома́т (ru) m (telefón-avtomát), обще́ственный телефо́н m (obščéstvennyj telefón)
Spanish: teléfono público m