"toilet book" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Books",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, William Donaldson, Is This Allowed, page 114",
          "text": "There's only one thing for it: I'll have to get stoned; there's always time to write a toilet book.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Canadian Library Association, Canadian Materials for Schools and Libraries, page 54",
          "text": "This is a toilet book. One can open it at any page, read it for a bit, and put it down for a time long enough to forget what one has read and still pick it up again with the same enthusiasm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Patrick Fanning, Not Dead Yet, and One or Two Other Good Things About Retirement, page 3",
          "text": "This is a toilet book—the kind with short chapters that you leave in the bathroom and pick up when you're in there on other business.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A book, generally factual but lightweight and humorous, written to be read in short, occasional bursts, such as when using the restroom."
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          "humorous",
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          "short",
          "short"
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          "occasional"
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        [
          "burst",
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        [
          "restroom",
          "restroom"
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        "(informal, somewhat derogatory) A book, generally factual but lightweight and humorous, written to be read in short, occasional bursts, such as when using the restroom."
      ],
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        "derogatory",
        "informal"
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  "word": "toilet book"
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          "ref": "1987, William Donaldson, Is This Allowed, page 114",
          "text": "There's only one thing for it: I'll have to get stoned; there's always time to write a toilet book.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Canadian Library Association, Canadian Materials for Schools and Libraries, page 54",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2009, Patrick Fanning, Not Dead Yet, and One or Two Other Good Things About Retirement, page 3",
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        "A book, generally factual but lightweight and humorous, written to be read in short, occasional bursts, such as when using the restroom."
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        "(informal, somewhat derogatory) A book, generally factual but lightweight and humorous, written to be read in short, occasional bursts, such as when using the restroom."
      ],
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        "derogatory",
        "informal"
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  "word": "toilet book"
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