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cell-phoned en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From cell phone (noun) + -ed (“having”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, uncommon) With a cell phone or phones.
   • The 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 2015:
   • I looked forward to their matches, as did the cell-phoned spectators recording their powerful strikes, […] 2024, Elwin Cotman, “Tournament Arc”, in Weird Black Girls: Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 184:
   • She 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:
   • Where 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 2015:
   • 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 2015:
   • 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 67:
   • To 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 1:
   • The door closes behind the cell-phoned gangbanger and I’m finally at the front of this line with my milk—[…] 2009, Jess Walter, “Another 7/11”, in The Financial Lives of the Poets: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, published 2010, →ISBN, page 2:

Forms

cell-phoned en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of cell-phone
   form of cell-phone