toilet

Definition

  • noun: a large bowl attached to a pipe that is used for getting rid of bodily waste and then flushed with water
  • noun: the act or process of dressing and grooming oneself
  • verb: to dress and groom oneself
  • usually used of a child
  • synonyms: wc, backhouse, basement

Examples

  • ('Brit') The little boy told his mother that he had to 'go to the toilet'. [=use the toilet; ('US') 'go to the bathroom']

  • We're planning to 'toilet train' him next summer.

  • One of the kids needed to use the 'toilet'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Percy... ...something to say? I didn't know the sponge is supposed to be wet. How many years you spend pissing on a toilet seat... ...before someone told you to put it up? - Percy fucked up, Hal. Pure and simple. That's your official position? Don't you think it should be? (..)
    1999 The Green Mile
  • (..) - Dime apiece. Two cents for the kids. - For the kids. Inside the tent they got this... ...mouse city... ...made out of... ...old boxes and toilet paper rolls, little windows so you can look in. Plus, they got the Mouseville All-Star Circus. Yeah, there's mice that swing on trapeze. (..)
    1999 The Green Mile