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  • noun Plural form of portaloo.

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Examples

  • Now we are able to present a video tour of the exhibit, which includes over 100 works, more than 70 of which are brand new, while many of the others, such as the painted toilets (or portaloos) have been reworked.

    Banksy Versus Bristol Museum 2009 Video Teaser The Nag 2009

  • Police have placed two portaloos inside the #demo2010 kettle and are handing out bottles of water!

    Second day of student protests - how the demonstrations happened Adam Gabbatt 2010

  • I waited until we got to the start but at least it cut down the queues at the portaloos I had brought big disposable waterproof ponchos to wear while we waited for the start gun and they worked like little greenhouses.

    What’s brown and sticky? 2009

  • I waited until we got to the start but at least it cut down the queues at the portaloos I had brought big disposable waterproof ponchos to wear while we waited for the start gun and they worked like little greenhouses.

    Back to Loch Ness 2009

  • So please, at the end, feel free to roll each other down Brook Street in portaloos or to hold each other upside down by the ankles.

    Matthew d'Ancona's Parliamentarian awards speech 2008

  • The combination of that and portaloos did not bear contemplating.

    Mud & Metal « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008

  • Harry Cohen: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many (a) bowsers and (b) portaloos the public sector has access to for utilising in a national emergency situation; whether there are plans to increase those numbers; and if he will make a statement.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Edward Miliband: The Public sector does not have access to a specific number of bowsers and portaloos but each water company holds a stock of emergency equipment.....

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • The portaloos you might be able to get during that time you probably wouldn't want anyway!

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • They are shamelessly stealing portaloos for their parties and returning them clean afterwards, in order to host raves for the those that feel the authoritarian world in which we now live is becoming a little too much for them.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

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  • It is also the 3rd person singular of the verb 'to portaloo'.

    September 5, 2011