Box - Booths That Are Sometimes Called Boxes

Booths That Are Sometimes Called Boxes

See also: Booth (disambiguation)
  • Police box, a booth for use by police in 20th century Britain.
  • Penalty box, a booth used in sports where a player sits to serve the time of a given penalty.
  • Telephone box, a booth containing a public telephone.
  • Signal box, a building by a railway to coordinate and control railway signals.

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