Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A booth where a toll is collected. Also called tollhouse.
- n. Variant of tolbooth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A booth, stall, or office where tolls, taxes, or duties are collected.
- n. A town jail: so called with reference to the fact that the tollbooth or temporary hut of boards erected in fairs and markets, in which the customs or duties were collected, was often used as a place of confinement or detention for such as did not pay, or were chargeable with some breach of the law in buying or selling; hence, any prison.
- n. A town hall.
- To imprison in a tollbooth.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of toll booth.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
- n. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.
- v. rare To imprison in a tollbooth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls
Examples
“Level 3 Communications, a Colorado-based Internet company whose main client is the movie-rental service Netflix, said Monday that Comcast's action amounts to setting up a "tollbooth" on the Internet.”
The Washington Post: Level 3 Communications calls Comcast feesfor Netflix feeds unfair
“I mean, if I look out the car window I see the tollbooth, which is how I know we’re coming up to the Rhinecliff Bridge.”
“The main beneficiaries of the arrangements were the Hanseatic League cities and their Hanse merchants (which/who controlled the trade), and the Danish crown (which controlled the "tollbooth" at the straits).”
“The "tollbooth" analogy is imperfect because traffic through the public peering points is free.”
“Sidewalk with a tollbooth: Dan Snyder's latest idea to gouge fans at FedEx Field.”
The Washington Post: Week 888: Make up a word based on someone's name
“How about a Muslim tollbooth worker of Saudi Arabian descent who refuses to let women drive through his lane because he believes it would offend Allah?”
The Huffington Post: Wayne Besen: The Religious Right's Shadow Nation
“Picture a wealthy businessman pulling up at a tollbooth in his gigantic SUV.”
“The orange just reminds me of my lost friends, Porku, Christian, Gozu, and El Cochinito, the guys from the tollbooth to Cuernavaca.”
“Thank you to the crews: the homies in Neza, Reyes and the band in Santa Fe, “Gomita” and the guys in Murder for a Lover, the guys from the tollbooth to Cuernavaca, Señor Arturo and all the friends at Las Duelistas.”
“But my uncle the tollbooth attendant could have beaten Carl Palladino, the loony Republican nominee.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Collins: Andrew Cuomo Has a Good Thing Going
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tollbooth’.
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Monovocalics
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Jail Terms
Synonyms for 'jail.' Some of these shamelessly pilfered from spicolli's list: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/the-pokey-the-b...
jail, prison, can, big house, slammer, clink, pen, oubliette, cage, cooler, solitary, penitentiary and 64 more...
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