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  • noun Plural form of portajohn.

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Examples

  • I've used a lot of different potties in my life, and they all tell you something about the place you find them -- from portajohns to marble edifices ....

    the same four chords with different faces ashacat 2009

  • The prepared food items and bottled water we live on out there; the portajohns our wastes go in after eating that food and drinking that water; the tents we sleep in, the pipe and metal domes we lounge under, the clothes we wear, either exotic or normal — all sold to us not for fellow-feeling but by monied interests, usually corporate, who just want our cash.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • The prepared food items and bottled water we live on out there; the portajohns our wastes go in after eating that food and drinking that water; the tents we sleep in, the pipe and metal domes we lounge under, the clothes we wear, either exotic or normal — all sold to us not for fellow-feeling but by monied interests, usually corporate, who just want our cash.

    Market Free 2007

  • Someday, Iraq and all those massive bases, all that high-tech equipment, all those ice-cream machines and portajohns, will seem like part of an American dream life.

    Tom Engelhardt: Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq 2008

  • On California farms, community organizing got the workers portajohns to crap in and soap and water to wash up with.

    What do we know about Barack Obama, the "community organizer"? Ann Althouse 2008

  • On Califormia farms, community organizing got the workers portajohns to crap in and soap and water to wash up with.

    What do we know about Barack Obama, the "community organizer"? Ann Althouse 2008

  • Maybe next year the TC 10K will be better, or maybe next year my 10K in College Station, TX, USA will have a male and female wheelchair bracket, or at least a couple more wheelchair accessible portajohns.

    Blogging Against Disabilism: I believe....one day Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Let me just assure you, right off, that after this, I promise never, ever, to talk to you about this year's SXSW again, but check it out: we passed by a tossed-up tent-and-chain-link venue with a long line jutting into the street, and from between the portajohns came one of the lowest frequencies I'd ever heard - you could hear their plastic locks rattle and feel it on the surface of your shirt.

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com EUGENIA WILLIAMSON 2010

  • Let me just assure you, right off, that after this, I promise never, ever, to talk to you about this year's SXSW again, but check it out: we passed by a tossed-up tent-and-chain-link venue with a long line jutting into the street, and from between the portajohns came one of the lowest frequencies I'd ever heard - you could hear their plastic locks rattle and feel it on the surface of your shirt.

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com EUGENIA WILLIAMSON 2010

  • Someday, Iraq and all those massive bases, all that high-tech equipment, all those ice-cream machines and portajohns, will seem like part of an American dream life.

    Mathaba Highlights Briefing 2008

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