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phones

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//fəʊnz//
  • United States//foʊnz//

headphones

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of phoneplural of phone

noun

  1. 1

    informalheadphones

    I don't like wearing phones for any length of time, but these are as comfortable as any I've tried. The only problem is that their isolation is so good, you feel cut off from the outside world and you can't hear what people are saying about you.

    I ripped the phones off my head, fluffed my hair, and tossed the crumpled lyric sheet in the garbage can before strolling into the control room like a queen.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of phonethird-person singular simple present indicative of phone

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).