telephone booth

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telephone booth (plural telephone booths)

1. A small enclosure housing a public telephone.

   Synonyms: phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk

   • 1924 July, John Buchan, “The House in Gospel Oak”, in The Three Hostages, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 85:

     Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb. So I went into a public telephone-booth, rang up the Club, and told the porter that if Colonel Arbuthnot called, I was at 4 Palmyra Square, N.W.—I made him write down the address—and would be back before ten o'clock.

• police box

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