burner phone

noun

: a prepaid cell phone that is not bound to a contract with a carrier (see carrier sense 7b) and is usually intended to be disposed of after use

She said he returned a short time later, got a lot of cash, then left again with the drugs and money after talking to an unidentified person on a burner phone.—

Kurt Helin

called also burner

Examples of burner phone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The trio used burner phones for communication, the memo alleges. —

Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024 On July 6, she was contacted by a burner phone, and over the next three days there were sixteen interactions between Brainard-Barnes’ phone and the burner, court records show. —

Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024 The famed Watergate reporter also details President Joe Biden’s frustrations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s assortment of burner phones. —

Michelle L. Price and Meg Kinnard, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2024 But the move is just to get the kidnapper to turn his burner phone back on, so the FBI can track it. —

Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for burner phone

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