tickey box
(South Africa, slang) A payphone.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(South Africa, slang) A payphone.
Origin: From tickey, obsolete South African slang for a threepenny coin (the cost of a payphone call at the time of the term's origin), and box (telephone kiosk). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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