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Noun: telephone box  'te-lu,fown bóks
Usage: Brit
  1. Booth for using a telephone
    "In the pre-mobile era, he had to find a telephone box to make an urgent call";
    - telephone booth [N. Amer], phone booth [N. Amer], call box [Brit], telephone kiosk, phone box

Derived forms: telephone boxes

Type of: booth, cubicle, kiosk, stall

Encyclopedia: Telephone box