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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

…

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Dictionary Entry

call box

Part of Speechnoun

A box containing a telephone for use in emergency, usually mounted on a post in an area where normal access to telephones is inconvenient (such as on an interstate highway or a very long highway bridge).

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Synonyms

phone boxtelephone boothtelephone box

Antonyms

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Related Words

phone boothtelephone kioskpost-office boxletter boxpobcallbox

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