What does telephone booth mean?

telephone booth

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

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"Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb. So I went into a public telephone-booth, rang up the Club, and told the porter that if Colonel Arbuthnot called, I was at 4 Palmyra Square, N.W.—I made him write down the address—and would be back before ten o'clock."

telephone booths (plural)

police box

police box

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