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tickey-box

tickey-box is the alternative spelling of tickey box.

Meaning of tickey box

Noun

tickey box (plural tickey boxes)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A payphone.
    • […] He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'2002, Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 81

Forms of tickey-box

pluraltickey-boxes

Questions about tickey-box

What is tickey-box the alternative spelling of?
Tickey-box is the alternative spelling of tickey box.

Words near tickey-box in the dictionary

  1. tickety-boo
  2. ticketyboo
  3. tickey
  4. tickey box
  5. tickey boxes
  6. tickey-box
  7. tickey-boxes
  8. tickeys
  9. Tickhill
  10. tickicide
  11. tickicides

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