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call box noun1British A public telephone booth.One day I was expecting an important call so I rang my home telephone from a public call box and keyed into my messaging service to see if anyone had phoned....- John Marshall was on the run from York Police when he telephoned his mother from a public call box in Amsterdam and told her he had nothing to lose.
- It was much easier than going to the call box outside then running back inside the shop to make my purchase.
2North American A telephone for emergency use.I was standing on a street and saw a red emergency call box....- That's where the Safe Tee emergency call box comes into play.
- Further back, toward the cathedral's choir section, four cast-iron emergency call boxes were arranged in front of a 30-foot-long wall of newspaper clippings about police violence.
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