: an enclosure within which one may stand or sit while making a telephone call
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Kemper has been in custody since April 23, 1973, when Pueblo police arrested him after his telephone booth confession.—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Veteran apartment gropers know enough to commandeer every working telephone booth in the area using friends who listen to dial tones and weather reports for an hour before the newspapers arrive.—Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025 Its current flagship location on Broughton Street in historic downtown Savannah includes several relics from the original store like the black marble soda fountain, wooden back bar, and telephone booth.—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025 Today’s lab macaques are still generally housed in small metal cages — the size of telephone booths, as neuroscientist Garet Lahvis has put it for Vox — inside windowless rooms with little opportunity for free movement.—Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for telephone booth
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