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long drop
noun
An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
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"It was such a long drop".
We got out and looked into a long drop.
These are supplemented by open-air "long drop" toilets.
The Long Drop by Denise Mina (Harvill Secker, £12.99).
It is a long drop to second-biggest movie this weekend, Spike Lee's "Inside Man" (Universal).
The Long Drop takes its title from a method of hanging.
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Seconds later, Kearney was just wide with a long drop-goal attempt.
Thankfully, the new fonts won't just suddenly all appear in a long drop-down menu.
ReprintsIn May concerns about how the Fed, under a new chairman, would handle the live wires of slowing growth and rising inflation caused a month-long drop in global equity and commodity markets.
The crystal was released in an area of microgravity generated by a 1.5-m-long drop shaft.
In the present study, μG conditions were produced using a 1.5-m-long drop shaft, which was designed and constructed at the Graduate School of Science, Osaka University.
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