"tickey box" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From tickey, obsolete South African slang for a threepenny coin (the cost of a payphone call at the time of the term's origin), and box (telephone kiosk).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tickey boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tickey box (plural tickey boxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "South African English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Telephony",
          "orig": "en:Telephony",
          "parents": [
            "Electronics",
            "Telecommunications",
            "Technology",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 81:",
          "text": "[…] He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kate S. Richards, Trainsurfer:",
          "text": "“Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A payphone."
      ],
      "id": "en-tickey_box-en-noun-YffsSq5o",
      "links": [
        [
          "payphone",
          "payphone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Africa, slang) A payphone."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tickey-box"
        },
        {
          "word": "ticky box"
        },
        {
          "word": "ticky-box"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tickey box"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From tickey, obsolete South African slang for a threepenny coin (the cost of a payphone call at the time of the term's origin), and box (telephone kiosk).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tickey boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tickey box (plural tickey boxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "South African English",
        "en:Telephony"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 81:",
          "text": "[…] He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kate S. Richards, Trainsurfer:",
          "text": "“Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A payphone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "payphone",
          "payphone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Africa, slang) A payphone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tickey-box"
    },
    {
      "word": "ticky box"
    },
    {
      "word": "ticky-box"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tickey box"
}