phone booth

noun

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

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The San Francisco phone booth is set up outside of Black Serum Tattoo studio in the Mission District. Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026 Tucked away in a corner along Valencia Street in San Francisco, a phone booth with a bright red phone stands tall. Sooji Nam, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026 The company installs Poseidons, each about the size of a phone booth, on the boat decks of local fishermen, then purchases the catch at a premium. Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026 Allen always seems to jump out of a phone booth when Buffalo needs him most. Mike Jones, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026 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 27 Jan. 2026.

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