burn phone

plural burn phones · alternative burner phone

1. informalA cell phone purchased anonymously with cash, used for only a short time and then discarded so that the owner is untraceable.

   Diesel handed me a burn cell phone. A burn cell phone was a pre-paid phone that you'd use once, then throw it away. I needed to call Gabby and make my burn phone not a burn phone. I dialed the number and prepared for awkward. “Hello?” Gabby's voice came through the phone quietly.

   2012, Bruce A. Sarte, The Insider's Story, Bucks County Publishing, →ISBN

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   I don't have a burn phone; that's why I'm using a land line. It's dangerous, so in case they are tracking this phone you need to act quickly.” “What are you doing? If their monitoring that phone you're using, then they've got this number. Thank God it's a burn phone. I've got to dump it quick. Don't ever call me. I know these two hackers and they can triangulate a signal right down to the inch.

   2017, Larry Wade Livingston, Sterling Sands, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

   Synonyms: burner, trap phone