Definitions for tollbooth

tollbooth toll·booth

Spelling: [tohl-booth, -booth]
IPA: /ˈtoʊlˌbuθ, -ˌbuð/

Tollbooth is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in tollbooth (bhllooott).

Definitions for tollbooth

noun

  1. a booth, as at a bridge or the entrance to a toll road, where a toll is collected.
  2. Chiefly Scot. tolbooth.
  3. a town jail.
  4. a town hall or guild hall, especially a place where tolls are paid.

Origin of tollbooth

First recorded in 1300-50, tollbooth is from the Middle English word tolbothe. See toll1, booth

Examples for tollbooth

But I will give you the name of the man who used to go to the tollbooth on Sunday afternoons.

But Willie went wrong—and from bad to worse; but now he is in the tollbooth at Aberdeen, as you have heard.

Word Value for tollbooth
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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