port-o-john

Meanings

nounport-o-john (plural port-o-johns)

A portable toilet.
She tried not to notice the garage attendants observing her when she parked to use the phone booth, furtive as a woman slipping into a port-o-john under the scrutiny of male witnesses.
2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, page 208
Synonyms: toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom

nounA portable toilet.

Similar

toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom

Also see

From Port-a-John (“an American business”), from portable, -a-, & john (“a toilet; an outhouse”).

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