: a very small room or enclosed structure with a public telephone in it
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That has to be trippier than anything Pelia saw from inside that phone box.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
23 July 2026 Cal had been standing in the red phone box at the bottom of the Meadows, watching the rugby players stretch on the lush green grass.—Literary Hub,
5 May 2026 Reader's Guide Questions by Paula Cooper John of John begins in a solitary red phone box in Edinburgh as Cal Mcleod is summoned home after four years in art school by his strict Calvinist father, John.—
Paula Cooper,
CBS News,
5 May 2026 Yondr, which makes portable phone locking pouches used at concerts or in schools, also sells a home phone box.—ABC News,
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