telephone box

telephone box (plural telephone boxes)

1. (British, Ireland, Australia) A small enclosure housing a public telephone (usually a payphone).

   Synonyms: phone box, telephone booth, telephone kiosk, call box

   • 2013 March 19, Peter Roberts, The Age‎^[1]:

     I remember riding my bike around Wilbur Street, and when I ran away from home at 10 I hid in the corner telephone box.

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• “telephone box”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “telephone booth, phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.