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noun

an outdoor telephone or signal box for calling the police or fire department.

British. a public telephone booth.

a post-office box for mail that can be picked up only by a renter in person.

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Origin of call box

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby call box

Callas, call a spade a spade, callathump, callback, call-board, call box, callboy, call center, call centre, call down, called strike

How to use call box in a sentence

For a new officer or an officer assigned to a new beat, knowing all the call boxes in his Carney Block was a priority.
Call box of duty: Cops remember the call boxes that kept them connected|John Kelly|January 30, 2021|Washington Post
Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.
How a ‘Real Housewife’ Survives Prison: ‘I Don’t See [Teresa Giudice] Having a Cakewalk Here’|Michael Howard|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.
ISIS’s Futile Quest to Go Legit|Jamie Dettmer|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Who else would see a former spouse accused of underage sex and call him ‘the greatest man there is’?
Fergie Dives Into Prince Andrew’s Sex Scandal|Tom Sykes|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Almost everyone I spoke to said they have used JSwipe because they are specifically not just looking for a booty call.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she held out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux

British Dictionary definitions for call box

call box

noun

a soundproof enclosure for a public telephoneAlso called: telephone box, telephone kiosk

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call box

Origin of call box

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