tickey box
Noun

tickey box (plural tickey boxes)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A payphone.
    • 2002, Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers (2002), ISBN 9781868421251, page 81:
      […] He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'
    • 2018, Kate S. Richards, Trainsurfer
      “Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.



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