telebooth

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English

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Etymology

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From tele- +‎ booth.

Noun

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telebooth (plural telebooths)

  1. (science fiction) A booth from which one can teleport to another location.
    • 2005, J. E. Hoyes, The Empath of Amneshah, Book One: Turba, page 3:
      One point three parsecs from Earth a heartbeat was being monitored by an Amneshahn telebooth.
    • 2007, Charles Edward Harris, Suns of God, page 196:
      We have telebooths that take us considerable distances in an instant.