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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



... suggestion was, Banneker after the interview did not go home to think it over. He went to a telephone booth and called up the Avon Theater. Was the curtain down? It was, just. Could he speak to Miss Raleigh? The ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... were roaring at her. "Read that again!" the chorused. Once more Miss Winter read the message, but before she had finished half of those in the front rows were scrambling from their seats and racing up the aisles. Already the reporters were ahead of them, and in the neighborhood not one telephone booth was empty. Within five minutes, in those hotels along the White Way where sporting men are wont to meet, betting commissioners and hand-book men were suddenly assaulted by breathless gentlemen, some in evening ...
— The Man Who Could Not Lose • Richard Harding Davis

... decisive movement Francisco entered a telephone booth. Five minutes later he emerged smiling. Jeanne had broken an engagement with the poet chap ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman



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



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