tickey box

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A payphone. South-Africa,slang
    — […] He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'

词形变化

tickey boxes plural tickey-box alternative ticky box alternative ticky-box alternative

词源

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).
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