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[ noun ] a room equipped with toilet facilities

Used in print

(Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old_maids , back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four , which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions , like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat_down .

A lock on the toilet would encourage malingering and primping .

The toilet had n't had a sincere scrubbing in years and there were things written on the walls of the little boxed_in place because you could n't keep the public out - entirely .

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[ noun ] a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Used in print

(The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)

Provision for emergency toilet facilities and disposal of human_wastes will be an unfamiliar problem .

A covered container such_as a kitchen garbage pail might do as a toilet .

3
[ noun ] misfortune resulting in lost effort or money

Synonyms

sewer gutter

Examples

"his career was in the gutter" "all that work went down the sewer" "pensions are in the toilet"

Related terms

misfortune

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[ noun ] the act of dressing and preparing yourself

Synonyms

toilette

Examples

"he made his toilet and went to breakfast"

Related terms

dressing

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