"toilet book" meaning in English

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      "form": "toilet books",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "expansion": "toilet book (plural toilet books)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Books",
          "orig": "en:Books",
          "parents": [
            "Literature",
            "Mass media",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Media",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
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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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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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          "book",
          "book"
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        [
          "factual",
          "factual"
        ],
        [
          "lightweight",
          "lightweight"
        ],
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "short",
          "short"
        ],
        [
          "occasional",
          "occasional"
        ],
        [
          "burst",
          "burst"
        ],
        [
          "restroom",
          "restroom"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "toilet book"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toilet books",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "toilet book (plural toilet books)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Books"
      ],
      "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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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          "derogatory",
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          "factual"
        ],
        [
          "lightweight",
          "lightweight"
        ],
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "short",
          "short"
        ],
        [
          "occasional",
          "occasional"
        ],
        [
          "burst",
          "burst"
        ],
        [
          "restroom",
          "restroom"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "toilet book"
}