telephone booth

noun

: an enclosure within which one may stand or sit while making a telephone call

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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 The trailer that showed featured requisite creepy sequences of a black phone ringing inside a lone telephone booth located on a snowy tundra. Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Sliwa had long since quit his job at McDonald’s and was supporting himself with the help of friends and relatives while directing Angels patrols from a telephone booth at Manhattan’s Columbus Circle subway station. Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 To park it on a London street without raising suspicion, the Doctor disguised the ship as a 1960s-era blue wooden police telephone booth that both officers and the public could use to call the nearest police station. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for telephone booth

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of telephone booth was in 1888

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“Telephone booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20booth. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.

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telephone booth

noun
: an enclosure within which one may stand or sit while making a telephone call
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