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The phrase "a pay phone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a public telephone that is operated by inserting coins or a card.
Example: "I need to find a pay phone to call for a ride since my cell phone is dead."
Alternatives: "public telephone" or "coin-operated phone".
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I saw a pay phone up ahead -- a pay phone!
Now there is a pay phone.
I'm not kidding, I ran to a pay phone.
Ms. Kafu had never used a pay phone before.
There was a pay phone in the waiting room.
"He was at a pay phone," Lois recalls.
I put a quarter in a pay phone and dialed.
I called the hotel from a pay phone.
His uncle Frank, he says, was so tight he had a pay phone in his house.
She had waited in a long line for a pay phone in the Tombs.
Out on the street I found a pay phone and called Renee.
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