throne n.
a lavatory.
 | ‘Seniority’ in Poems II 131: ‘Let who will go, first, to the Priapan Throne; / A person may do what he will, in his own;’ / And, moving about, he the vapor increas’d; /(For...in things of this kind, there’s some smell and some taste!). | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Ulysses 38: In a Greek watercloset he breathed his last...With beaded mitre and with crozier, stalled upon his throne . | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 238: throne [...] throne room [...] a toilet. | |
| Bakersfield Californian (CA) 6 Feb. 14/7: [advert] At give-away prices: bathroom ‘thrones’ [...] and other plumbing fixtures. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. c.1918) My Grandmothers and I (1987) 55: ‘PLEASE POLISH THRONE’, said a notice pinned to the wall. | |
| Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 134: She pushed a dung barrow / Singing ‘Dung balls and honey / All fresh from the throne.’. | |
| Times (San Mateo, CA) 5 Oct. 21/1: [advert] Sunken tiled tub and recessed ‘throne’. | |
| et al. CUSS 147: King’s throne Washroom. | |
| A Little of What You Fancy (1985) 478: I always use the Throne. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 194: public toilet [...] throne room. [Ibid.] 196: throne (camp) toilet seat. | |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 235: In ordinary slang throne = toilet seat and on the throne = taking a crap. | |
| Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MI) 21 Feb. 13/2: I entered the women’s rest room [...] I ‘ascended the throne’ in the lavatory. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 129: THRONE — Toilet, a right royal word for shithouse. | |
| Bend for Home 262: We’ll be on the throne all fucking night, says Maisie. | |
| Mad mag. Feb. 43: Where in the palace does Jabba go to ease his 30' colon? The ‘throne room,’ of course. | |
| Dreamcatcher 113: Dead and sitting on the throne, just like Elvis. | |
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz Apr. 47: brownian motion n. [...] painful and frequent visits to the throne room. | |
| Locked Ward (2013) 184: Allie was seated on the throne all right, but he still had his trackie bottoms on. |
In phrases
1. a heterosexual who poses as gay for the purposes of avoiding the draft.
| Queens’ Vernacular 154: pretender to the throne [...] 2. young man who tries to get out of being drafted by claiming homoerotic tendencies. | |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 235: A pretender to the throne is someone who falsely confesses to being homosexual [...] to avoid the draft. |
2. a vice squad policeman who poses as gay to entrap genuine homosexuals.
| Queens’ Vernacular 154: pretender to the throne 1. vice squad officer. | |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 235: A pretender to the throne is [...] in another usage, a vice cop who loiters as if he were ‘gay’ to entrap ‘gays’ who might solict public sex, as in a men’s room. |
to use a lavatory.
| letter 25 March in Charters II (1999) 360: When I sit on the throne at night I close the light and open the window and look out on the field. | |
| (con. 1930s) He Don’t Know ‘A’ from a Bull’s Foot 8: For going to the Lav we used euphemisms like [...] ‘I’m going to have to sit on the Throne.’. | |
| Muvver Tongue 44: A man says he is going to pay his respects, or ease his mind, or sit on the throne. | |
| DSUE (8th edn) 1225/2: [...] since ca. 1920. | |
| Stage (London) 6 Aug. 10/1: Sitting on the Throne [...] The lack of loos in Bolton is giving bosses [...] a headache. Hundreds of people [...] are ‘caught sahort’. |
to use the lavatory.
| Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 47: Throne Up Sit on the toilet. |