Meaning of cheese box | Babel Free

Definitions

A device formerly used by phreakers to convert a home telephone line into a payphone.

Examples

“Then the bookie leaves the site of the phone and stations himself blocks away in another room with a phone attached to a similar cheese box.”

“The cheese box bridges two separate telephone lines. It is often used by bookmakers and bettors to place free calls for accepting or placing bets.”

“There are files circulating about the modem/phreak world regarding a device known as a cheese box.”

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