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phone booth

noun

US
: a very small room or enclosed structure with a public telephone in it

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Find your island escape through the bar's phone booth and up the stairs. Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025 Inside the phone booth, Dad’s talking loudly. Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025 Breaking Rust also has a profile on Instagram, which boasts over 35,000 followers and is filled with images of a melancholy looking man, wearing a cowboy hat in various settings, including at a phone booth, walking on a road, and sitting in the rain. Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025 As a sleazy, lecherous publicist pinned in a Manhattan phone booth by a faceless sniper on the other end of the line, Farrell goes from smug condescension to breathless victimhood pretty effortlessly. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for phone booth

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“Phone booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20booth. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.

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