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paybox en · NOUN

Etymology

From pay + box.

Meanings

1. A box for holding money to be distributed as payment.
2. A small booth or ticket office at a cinema, carnival, etc. where payment is taken from customers.
3. A telephone booth with a payphone.
   • He got up and moved to the front of the bus without looking back. At the next stop he got off the bus and made straight for the nearest drugstore. He shut himself into the paybox. 1954, Ian Fleming, “Nigger Heaven”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 44:

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