Citations:tickey-box
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English citations of tickey-box
Noun: "(South Africa, slang) alternative spelling of tickey box"[edit]
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- 1981 — Christopher Hope, Private Parts & Other Tales, Bateleur Press, (1981), →ISBN, page 74:
- […] muscle-brain Murchison, stabbed to death by persons unknown in a tickey-box, […]
- 1993 — André Brink, An Act of Terror, Vintage International (1993), →ISBN, page 301:
- But Judy phoned Justin soon after lunch, from a tickey-box.
- 1993 — Etienne van Heerden, Casspirs and Camparis: A Historical Entertainment, Viking (1993), OCLC 33944642:
- Down in the lift, to the tickey-box on Greenmarket Square, noises howling in my head, purple people running past me, […]
- 1994 — Janet Smith, Joe Cassidy and the Red Hot Cha-Cha, Maskew Miller Longman (1994), →ISBN:
- He had phoned her just once from Durban from a tickey-box […]
- 2003 — H. Jaye-Parker, Wednesday's Child, Kwagga Publishers (2003), →ISBN:
- The intermittent beeps indicated the call was from a tickey-box.
- 2010 — Deon Meyer, Thirteen Hours (trans. by K. L Seegers), Random House Canada (2010), →ISBN, page 315:
- […] At eleven at the deli there, she told her father over the tickey-box that she couldn't talk to the police…'