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Terry’s phone’s cut! (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tel

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'terry's' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'phone's cut' is the wordplay.
'phone's' becomes 'tels'.
'cut' means to remove the last letter.
'tels' with its final letter removed is 'TEL'.

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(Other definitions for tel that I've seen before include "Ancient mound in Arab lands" , "Ancient mound in Middle East" , "Small number" , "-- Aviv; old mound" , "Phone number (abbrev.)" .)

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