Meanings
cell-phoned1
alternative cellphoned
- not comparableuncommonWith a cell phone or phones.
These cell-phoned crowds are activist but not militant; today’s “mobe” is no mob.
2000 April 13, William Safire, “Essay: Here Come the Big Parades”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 20155 more examples
It [the bomb] had been placed near an elevated railway at South Quay, in London’s Docklands, where the ghosts of cockney porters meet the cell-phoned Yuppies of modern Britain.
1996, Gerald Stone, editor, The Bulletin with Newsweek, volume 116, numbers 6004–6011, Sydney, N.S.W.: ACP Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67To see this new Nashville in action, go to the Pancake Pantry, a dressed-down version of the Polo Lounge, any morning and fight past the cell-phoned agents and stars munching and making deals.
1996 October 7, Keith Gould, “On the Suits Road: Gone Country”, in Craig Reiss, editor, Adweek, volume 46, New York, N.Y.: ASM Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 1The men and women who walk here are an unassuming lot, less the cell-phoned swells of the new Bryant Park than nine-to-fivers needing a smoke.
1998 August 7, Thomas Mallon, “My Manhattan: Once-Famous Faces Watch Over a Park”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015Where are the lyrics that speak to a micro-chipped, dot-commed, cell-phoned, video-crazed, Starbucks-bloated world?
2000 September 2, Clyde Haberman, “NYC: Now, Joe Hill Would Have Carpal Tunnel”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015She came running through the crowd dodging the cell-phoned heads, exquisitely attired as usual, probably the result of a recent shopping excursion at Fendi’s.
2008, Lloyd Mardis, chapter 39, in Beneath the Mirror (Samantha King Mystery Series; 1), Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 204
cell-phoned2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of cell-phone
Origin
cell-phoned · verb
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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