phone booth

noun

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

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Over a follow-up call in May, Corenswet has traded the phone booth from EW's cover for a botanical garden somewhere outside Los Angeles. EW.com, 10 June 2025 Typically, when things get ragged in the final five minutes, Nikola Jokic finds the nearest phone booth and puts on a cape. Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 May 2025 Discounting any of the various potential paradoxes and possible multiversal implications of the deed, Jeb Bush leapt headlong into this hypothetical (take your pick) DeLorean, phone booth, Tardis, or Wellsian steampunk contraption with a knife in hand. Jack Butler, National Review, 8 June 2025 The clip opens with Rosé at a phone booth in the middle of the desert, seemingly calling up the others. Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for phone booth

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“Phone booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20booth. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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