phone booth

noun

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

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The book traces Brinkley’s life and career in her own words, beginning with her childhood and her rough relationship with her biological father to at the start of her famed modeling career, after being discovered outside a phone booth in Paris in 1974. Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 17 July 2025 But Booker is more of a phone booth player who isn’t super great in space--I’ll be curious to see how the offense limits his play in space. Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2025 Over a follow-up call in May, Corenswet has traded the phone booth from EW's cover for a botanical garden somewhere outside Los Angeles. EW.com, 10 June 2025 Typically, when things get ragged in the final five minutes, Nikola Jokic finds the nearest phone booth and puts on a cape. Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 May 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 21 Aug. 2025.

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