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)
box office
n.— «Flew with someone the other day and she referred to it as a box office.» —“the word ‘flight deck’ vs. ‘cockpit’” by Capt. Paul Skinback in United Kingdom PPRuNe Forums (Unite) Sept. 26, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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