box office
n.— «“Yes,” said the attendant, “In fact the entire crew is female.”…“We no longer call it the cockpit. Now it’s the box office.”» —“Marvin’s nightmare flight” Richard Harter’s World July 1, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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