long drop, noun phrase

Colloquial. A pit lavatory. Also attributive.
1979 Het Suid-Western 7 Feb.In October, 1972, they dug up the old pit lavatory or ‘long drop’ near the cottage.
1979 J. Mullins in Fair Lady 5 Dec. 256Tables under the trees and the inevitable boma for big camp-fire gatherings. In the nearby thicket are reed walled long drops (with no doors).
1982 Rhodeo (Rhodes Univ.) 6 Apr. 8Matchbox houses placed one on top of another, with an outside, ‘long drop’ toilet, barely three feet away from the house.
1988 D. Kenmuir Song of Surf 8Even the long-drop loo, perched over the gobbling tide, had a quaint and amusing charm.
1989 Personality 29 May 15Hot showers! with a couple of twigs acting as vanity boards..and, of course, a ‘Kalahari wishing well’ — the long drop.
1990 A. Embleton in Style May 94Roni wanted to turn her elegant lavatory into a typical bottom-of-the-garden long-drop.
1990 R. Malan My Traitor’s Heart 287A hole in the ground behind my hut led down to an underground chamber, in the center of which stood a ‘long drop’ — a plastic toilet on a wooden platform suspended above a deep pit of shit.
1993 G. Silber in Flying Springbok June 74It’s a small, remote camp,..and you stay in five-star army tents with adjoining bucket-showers and long-drop toilets.
A pit lavatory. Also attributive.
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