Phone box

/fəʊn bɒks/

/foʊn bɑːks/

[noun]

Phone box

[NOUN]

an enclosed space with a public phone that someone can pay in order to use it

Examples

1. And he once created this phone box screen that I thought was pretty brilliant.

2. Some sightings say she had gone to a phone box a block away and was seen making a call at 11:15pm.

3. During my PhD thesis, which I wrote at the University of Lille, France, I always thought that big analysis laboratories were a bit like phone boxes of the 80s - it's a comparison which will speak more to those over 30 - I thought that medical tests would go the same way and that we would end up having our own self-testing kits at home.

4. I'm going to keep on going up with my palette knife to smooth it out as much as possible because at the end of the day it is a phone box , they're pretty straight.

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