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Porta Potti, n. Chiefly N. Amer.
Brit. |ˈpɔːtə pɒti|, U.S. |ˈpɔrdə ˌpɑdi|
Forms: 19– Porta Potti, 19– Porta-Potti, 19– Port-a-Potty, 19– Portapotti, 19– Portapotty; Also with lower-case initial(s).
[‹ porta- comb. form + potty n., with arbitrary respelling.]
1. A proprietary name for: a small prefabricated unit containing a toilet, designed for easy transportation and temporary installation esp. outdoors, as on a work site or at an open-air public event. Hence more widely: any similar temporary toilet. Cf. Portaloo n.
1968Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 Dec. tm56/2 Porta Potti... For toilets. 1986F. Peretti This Present Darkness i. 9 A traveling troupe of enterprising migrants..set up their carnival with rides, booths, and portapotties. 1994R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures xv. 247 There were long rows of confessionals on either side of the nave, like portapotties at an outdoor rock concert with libero and occupato signs on them. 2000Level Nov. 29 A man..climbs into a porta-potty that has been filled with human (and animal) waste. The door is sealed and the small toilet is lifted by a large garbage truck until it is upside down.
2. A proprietary name for: a portable chemical toilet, as used by campers, or one connected to a holding tank, as in a vehicle, small boat, or light aircraft.
1968Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 Dec. tm56/2 Porta Potti... For toilets. 1979N.Y. Times 11 June a16/5 One boat was bombed by the bagged contents of a camper's Port-a-Potty dropped from a bridge overhead. 1986Jrnl. (Fairfax County, Va.) May b15/6 (advt.) Viking Pop-up Camper '85. New, used twice, sleeps 6–8, stove, refrigerator, port-a-potty, wardrobe, more. 1992Offshore Sept. 93/2 Boston Police Harbormaster Eric Hahn had threatened to ticket any boater caught emptying his portapotty..into Boston's expensively cleaned-up harbor. 2000Sunday Times (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Ecosse section), I did all the washing up and spent hours hunched over the hoover. I emptied the caravan portapotty. |