Citations:tickey box

English citations of tickey box

Noun: "(South Africa, slang) a payphone"

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• 1977 — Christopher Hope, A Separate Development, Charles Scribner's Sons (1981), →ISBN, page 111:

  I got as far as the tickey box on the corner of John X. Merriman but stopped at the first digit.

• 2000 — Roy Holland, News from Parched Mountain: Tales from the Karoo in the New South Africa, iUniverse (2000), →ISBN, page 96:

  He stared at the portable kiosk, and then, just loud enough for me to hear, said in surprise: 'It's a tickey box!'

• 2002 — Andy Capostagno, Memorable Moments in One-Day Cricket, Penguin Books (2002), →ISBN:

  'He hadn't even developed it and he had to find a tickey box to call his editor because that was before everyone had cellphones, but he knew he'd got an outstanding shot. […]

• 2002 — Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers (2002), →ISBN, page 81:

  […] He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'

• 2003 — Kleinboer, Midnight Missionary (trans. by Jaco Fouché), Zebra Press (2006), →ISBN, page 2:

  There was a tickey box in the hallway of Sunbeam House, on the second floor.

• 2006 — Ben Trovato, Hits and Missives: The Worst of Ben Trovato, Jacana Media (2006), →ISBN, page 11:

  lf you want to make a call, use the tickey box inside the prison.

• 2011 — Tracey Farren, Snake, Modjaji Books (2011), →ISBN, page 218:

  Peep, peep, peep. The tickey box peeped like a truck reversing.