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Roadside emergency phone
Answer for the clue "Roadside emergency phone ", 7 letters:
callbox
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n. (alternative form of call box English)
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A call box or callbox is a (usually metal) box containing a special-purpose direct line telephone or other telecommunications device , which has been used by various industries and institutions as a way for employees or clients at a remote location to contact ...
Usage examples of callbox.
Jack figured that there was a good chance that the man had been phoning from the callbox where Jack had seen him skulking before.
Richard kept seeing him, in Red Lion Street, in the callbox, staring with terrible and illegible purpose at the crowded entrance of the language school.
He queued for a callbox, or milled for a callbox, the queuing idea, like the zebra-crossing idea, like the women-and-children-first idea, like the leave-the-bathroom-as-you-would-expect-to-find-it idea, having relinquished its hold in good time for the millennium.
Peter had been making his way back from the callbox on the other side of the road when he heard the door of Polly's house opening.
There are trifles a person does not consciously notice: the shape of the ceiling fixtures, the foreign arrangement of dials on the corner air sniffers, the unfamiliar designs of fountains, callboxes, sprinklers, door flanges, medical terminals, and crash locks.