Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun informal Same as
lavatory {5}; -- a shortened form of the word.
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- noun UK, slang
Lavatory .
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- noun a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
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Examples
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Believe me, I'd rather chat about French farm hens or even Frango mint shakes (how I miss them!) but when you gotta go, you gotta go, and we all need to go forth in this, the language of love or, shall we say, "lav"?
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Believe me, I'd rather chat about French farm hens or even Frango mint shakes (how I miss them!) but when you gotta go, you gotta go, and we all need to go forth in this, the language of love or, shall we say, "lav"?
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Believe me, I'd rather chat about French farm hens or even Frango mint shakes (how I miss them!) but when you gotta go, you gotta go, and we all need to go forth in this, the language of love or, shall we say, "lav"?
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Believe me, I'd rather chat about French farm hens or even Frango mint shakes how I miss them! but when you gotta go, you gotta go, and we all need to go forth in this, the language of love or, shall we say, "lav"?
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Believe me, I'd rather chat about French farm hens or even Frango mint shakes how I miss them! but when you gotta go, you gotta go, and we all need to go forth in this, the language of love or, shall we say, "lav"?
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Jim's a fair-weather raven, and this morning he was singing like a 'lav'rock in the glen.'"
The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Jim's a fair-weather raven, and this morning he was singing like a 'lav'rock in the glen.'"
The World for Sale, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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Jim's a fair-weather raven, and this morning he was singing like a 'lav'rock in the glen.'"
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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If they assault and spray/mark me from the side or behind, I must run to the lav and wash, wash, wash it off, and then run to the nearest bar and drink, drink, drink away the headache a cure I devised while quite young.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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If they assault and spray/mark me from the side or behind, I must run to the lav and wash, wash, wash it off, and then run to the nearest bar and drink, drink, drink away the headache a cure I devised while quite young.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
alexz commented on the word lav
movie set - a lavolier microphone
September 12, 2016