the bogs

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

the bogs pl (plural only)

1. (slang) A public bathroom; lavatory.
   • 2005, Valerie Mason-John, Borrowed Body, page 225:

     I get to know some other girls while waiting to use the bogs.

   • 2011, Sam Holden, Diary of a Hapless Househusband, →ISBN, page 198:

     It's a bit like urinal etiquette in which, upon entering the bogs you are obliged to choose the Urinal of Conspicuous Heterosexuality.

   • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 234:

     Dave walks over to the urinal and unzips his fly. 'Remember the bogs in the Captain Marlow?'

Anagrams

• beghost