telephone box

British  

noun

1. Also called: telephone kiosk.   telephone booth.  an enclosure from which a paid telephone call can be made

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Example Sentences

There is also a telephone box, used by celebrities to answer questions in an attempt to win prizes.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

“The Commonwealth has shown a remarkable ability to reinvent itself and contrive solutions at times of crisis, almost as if it’s jumping into a telephone box and coming out under different guise,” she said.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022

With this, she pushes a button on her spacecraft time machine, the TARDIS, disguised as a police telephone box, which responds by seeming to malfunction.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2017

The enormous red-brick power station was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect behind the familiar British red telephone box and London’s Tate Modern museum.

From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2017

They turned a corner, passing a telephone box and a bus shelter.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling