phone box
See also: phonebox
English
Alternative forms
Noun
phone box (plural phone boxes)
- (UK, Ireland, Australia) A telephone box
- 2025 January 18, Rosemary Murphy, Alistair Bates, ABC News[1]:
- But sitting, somewhat incongruously, at the station entrance is a working Telstra phone box.
- (figurative) A very small space.
Further reading
- “phone box”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “telephone booth, phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.