Meanings
plural portaloos
- UKA portable toilet.
On what would once have been the front lawn there is now a prefabricated hut and a portaloo.
2011, Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone1 more example
The valleys and hillsides looked pretty chewed up by all the maneuvers, portaloos dotted the landscape, but the fauna seemed to appreciate the fact that the U.S. Army—unlike the Bavarian hunters outside the box—were shooting blanks.
2009, James Der Derian, Virtuous war: mapping the military-industrial-media-entertainment networkSynonyms: bathroom
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA portable toilet.
Origin
From a trademark of Portakabin Ltd, based on portable and loo.
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