tickey box
nounEtymology 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).
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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:
- “Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.2018, Kate S. Richards, Trainsurfer: