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'call box' is a correct and usable form of written English.
You can use it to refer to a public telephone booth. For example, "We had trouble finding a working phone, so we decided to look for a call box."
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call box
noun
A box, usually mounted on a post and containing a telephone and located in areas where normal access to telephones is inconvenient (such as on an interstate highway or a very long highway bridge), used to make phone calls in case of emergency.
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"10-26!" the call box bleated.
"10-26!" the call box bleated again.
Call box office for ticket details. 1601 Irving Street, Rahway.
I saw your accident....I was with my friend at the call box".
Louise knew by the new name on the call box that someone had moved in.
Consider another call box, at 37th Avenue and 75th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Two women were standing at an emergency call box, reporting a car that had broken down.
The county's call box system is the largest in the state and still bears his name.
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Programme-makers have discovered the power of what I call box-set broadcasting: long, sophisticated dramas with Hollywood-grade production values and casts.
Nobody made a mental note to stick 10p in a call-box to ring whoever was the equivalent back then of Gordon Smart, showbiz editor of the Sun.
Almost every Shore photograph is organized around a bright panel or pole of red — a distinctively New York red, not a sunset or a tropical red but an emergency-call-box or fire-station or athletic-socks red.
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