portacabin
nounEtymology
From the trademark Portakabin, itself from portable cabin.
Definitions
A prefabricated hut that is transportable, often used as an office or for storage.
- It was a standard port-a-cabin, twenty by twelve feet, with two small beds at either end, two lockers, and a table and chair between them.
- At least I'm not in a portacabin. Whenever I find myself heading towards a peripheral portacabin, I experience the same visceral feeling that the French aristocrats had when they rode the tumbrels to Madame Guillotine.
- We have done our portacabin out with balloons, paper chains and “Support troop is One Step Beyond.” It looks all Christmassy, with the snow, it is quite good.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA