phone booth

noun

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

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Connors was shot to death in a phone booth down the road. Tovia Smith, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025 The basement housed a beauty shop and barber shop, with shimmering, psychedelic floral wallpaper, and a clamshell phone booth. Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025 Make a pit stop in SoHo at The Dominick where a vintage phone booth in the lobby awaits, outfitted with a Haunted Hotline that tells chilling tales inspired by NYC. Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025 The Grabber hounds Finn through an old phone booth and torments Gwen through her dreams. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Oct. 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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