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tollbooth
[ tohl-booth, -booth ]
noun
- a booth, as at a bridge or the entrance to a toll road, where a toll is collected.
- Chiefly Scot. tolbooth.
tollbooth
/ ˈtəʊlˌbuːθ; ˈtɒl-; -ˌbuːð /
noun
- a booth or kiosk at which a toll is collected
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of tollbooth1
Example Sentences
His accomplices appeared to be fully informed because they were waiting at the motorway tollbooth.
A vast police manhunt was underway in northern France on Tuesday after armed assailants ambushed a prison convoy at a road tollbooth, killed two prison officers and freed an inmate.
His attackers squirted gasoline into the tollbooth coin slot and ignited the fuel with matches.
Now, tollbooths on about two-thirds of the 6,600 miles of roads overseen by the group’s members no longer accept cash, he said.
The G-7 coalition, for example, could set up a sort of tollbooth at crucial chokepoints — such as the Danish straits — that Russian oil tankers must traverse to reach global markets.
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