The standard British, Irish, and Australian term for a public telephone enclosure — what Americans call a phone booth. The classic British red phone box (the K6 model designed by Giles Gilbert Scott) is an internationally recognised cultural icon. Used figuratively to describe any very small, cramped space.
The flat was so small it felt like living in a phone box.
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(UK, Ireland, Australia) A telephone box.
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(figurative) A very small space.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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