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tickey boxes

tickey boxes is the plural 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

Questions about tickey boxes

What is tickey boxes the plural of?
Tickey boxes is the plural of tickey box.

Words near tickey boxes in the dictionary

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

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