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Telephone booth   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn buθ/   Listen
Telephone booth

noun
1.
Booth for using a telephone.  Synonyms: call box, phone booth, telephone box, telephone kiosk.






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"Telephone booth" Quotes from Famous Books



... bottle of whiskey and while it was being put up passed into the telephone booth and closed the door behind him. He called ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine

... after a brief stay in the telephone booth he was perspiring freely, and his face was redder, if possible, ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon

... as his figure vanished, that Lish Kelly crossed the writing room. He had been sitting in a telephone booth, and leaving the door a crack open had heard every word ...
— The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly • Margaret Burnham

... Arrive: If you have not written or telegraphed us to meet you at the railway station, as soon as you arrive go to the telephone booth and call the Bogue Institute and a representative of the institute will be sent for ...
— Stammering, Its Cause and Cure • Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

... going to have a good time now," thought the little rabbit to himself. "I've learned my daily lesson. I'll call up Uncle John." So off he hopped to the Hollow Stump Telephone Booth. ...
— Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers • David Cory

... to the nearest telephone booth and called up McCrary's cafe, far up on Broadway. He asked for ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... died in his face, and noticing this, McPhearson, who loitered in the meantime at the door of the telephone booth, remarked: ...
— Christopher and the Clockmakers • Sara Ware Bassett

... overcoat and hat before entering the dining-room, wasted no time but entered a public telephone booth. When he emerged he was whistling cheerily, and the doorkeeper watched him hail a street ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... sped away from the old mill, and in a little while Ruth was shut into a telephone booth talking with Mr. Hammond in a distant city. She told him a good deal more than she had the girls. It was his due. Besides, she had already got the skeleton of a story in her mind and she repeated the important points of this ...
— Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest - Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies • Alice B. Emerson



Words linked to "Telephone booth" :   stall, call box, telephone box, cubicle, phone booth, telephone kiosk, booth, kiosk



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