tickey box
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See also: tickey-box
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tickey, obsolete South African slang for a threepenny coin (the cost of a payphone call at the time of the term's origin), and box (telephone kiosk).[1]
Noun
[edit]tickey box (plural tickey boxes)
- (South Africa, slang) A payphone.
- 2002, Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 81:
- […] He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'
- 2018, Kate S. Richards, Trainsurfer:
- “Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.