Citations:tickey box

Noun: "(South Africa, slang) a payphone"

 * 1977 — Christopher Hope, A Separate Development, Charles Scribner's Sons (1981), ISBN 9780684173085, page 111:
 * I got as far as the tickey box on the corner of John X. Merriman but stopped at the first digit.
 * 2000 — Roy Holland, News from Parched Mountain: Tales from the Karoo in the New South Africa, iUniverse (2000), ISBN 0595146120, page 96:
 * He stared at the portable kiosk, and then, just loud enough for me to hear, said in surprise: 'It's a tickey box!'
 * 2002 — Andy Capostagno, Memorable Moments in One-Day Cricket, Penguin Books (2002), ISBN 9780143024118:
 * 'He hadn't even developed it and he had to find a tickey box to call his editor because that was before everyone had cellphones, but he knew he'd got an outstanding shot.
 * 2002 — Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers (2002), ISBN 9781868421251, page 81:
 * He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'
 * 2003 — Kleinboer, Midnight Missionary (trans. by Jaco Fouché), Zebra Press (2006), ISBN 9781770071148, page 2:
 * There was a tickey box in the hallway of Sunbeam House, on the second floor.
 * 2006 — Ben Trovato, Hits and Missives: The Worst of Ben Trovato, Jacana Media (2006), ISBN 1770093079, page 11:
 * lf you want to make a call, use the tickey box inside the prison.
 * 2011 — Tracey Farren, Snake, Modjaji Books (2011), ISBN 9781920397388, page 218:
 * Peep, peep, peep. The tickey box peeped like a truck reversing.