Dictionary

burn phone en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (informal) A cell phone purchased anonymously with cash, used for only a short time and then discarded so that the owner is untraceable.
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Coordinates

trap phone

Synonyms

burner · trap phone

Translations (20)

pl jednorazowy telefon (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · pl telefon na kartę (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · sv brännlur (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · sv becknarlur (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · nl wegwerptelefoon (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · af wegsmytfoon (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · de Tickerhandy (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · de Einweghandy (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · ru палёный телефо́н (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · fi kertakäyttökännykkä (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · sv burner (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · de Wegwerfhandy (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · fr téléphone graveur (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · sv brännartelefon (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · es teléfono prepago / prepagado (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · hu dobós teló (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · ga fón indiúscartha (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · sv buslur (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · cmn 一次性手機 /一次性手机 (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced) · de Drogenhandy (mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced)