Definition of "toilet"

He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.

2002, Digby Tantam, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework, page 122

He wet his thumb with saliva pressing on the tongue, ran it up and down faster over the letter 'I' of 'TOILET', the 'LADIES TOILET' was transformed into 'LADIES TO LET' in no time.

2014, C.S. Walter, Abandoned Bridges, pp. 105 f.

Look around you. It's a toilet.

1982, The Mosquito Coast

Mr. Gaunt was urbane and smiling again, not a hair out of place. "Do you like this little town? Do you love it? […] " […] "I hate this fucking toilet," he said to Leland Gaunt.

1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d,Each silver vase in mystic order laid.

1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto I, lines 121-126

Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […] .

1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford, published 2009, page 118

Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet.

1913, Rabindranath Tagore, Come as you are..., Poetry Foundation, page 85

Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets, smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.

1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111

Here, at night, a lonely but brilliantly neon-illuminated figure, I performed my toilet, watched incuriously by the Burmese seated at the tables of the tea-shops below.

1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth, Chapter 8

It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilette, and never see the great soul in a man's face.

1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book I, page 25

"It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."

1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

We use imitation. We take a doll, a doll that can wet, and make sure it has pants on it. We use the principle that a very effective way of learning is by teaching. Se we have him teach the doll how to toilet properly.

1974, Philip J. Hilts, Behavior Mod‎, Harper's Magazine Press, page 74