phone box

noun

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

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The Stolp phone box is equipped with a Faraday cage that disconnects devices from Wi-Fi service completely. Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2024 Kondo has partnered with Stolp to design and develop an innovative phone box to digitally decompress—and its aesthetically pleasing enough to be considered decor. Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2024 My clearest memory of the day is this: standing in a phone box outside the hospital, the sticky receiver held to my ear, complaining to my father that I had been lied to, and that a needle was coming my way. Madeleine Watts, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022

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“Phone box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20box. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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