tickey box

See also: tickey-box

English

Alternative forms

• tickey-box
• ticky box
• ticky-box

Etymology

From tickey, obsolete South African slang for a threepenny coin (the cost of a payphone call at the time of the term's origin), and box (telephone kiosk).

Noun

tickey box (plural tickey boxes)

1. (South Africa, slang) A payphone.
   • 2002, Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 81:

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

   • 2018, Kate S. Richards, Trainsurfer:

     “Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.