tollbooth

Speech parts

1. tollbooth - Noun

2. tollbooth - Verb

Meaning

A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.

In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.

To imprison in a tollbooth.

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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. Norton Juster

After The Phantom Tollbooth, it was probably my most frequently reread book. Source: Internet

A Letter to Norma Fox Mazer at Through the Tollbooth. Source: Internet

So the road face fortifying was just a pretext for the investor to place the BOT tollbooth in the national highway, said the expert. Source: Internet

Dad taking out his false front tooth (college football injury) on a Family road trip, and talking to the tollbooth operator with a fake hillbilly accent, just to make my brother and me laugh. Source: Internet

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