telephone booth
English
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Noun
[edit]telephone booth (plural telephone booths)
- 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.
Translations
[edit]small enclosure housing a public telephone
See also
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telephone booth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - telephone booth, phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- “telephone booth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
