jakes:

A latrine . Defined by Captain Francis Grose in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' A house-of-office , a cacatorium .'

Quotes Containing jakes:
Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) reflecting in The Two Jakes (1990): ''Memories are like that, as unpredictable as nitro and you never know what''s going to set them off .''

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