cell phone

1. 1.

   call up by using a cellular phone

   “If the train is late, I will cell phone you”

   Broadercall

   telephone

Questions about cell phone

What does cell phone mean?

cell phone means "call up by using a cellular phone".

Is cell phone a common word?

cell phone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.