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Does this campground have a privy?

I've seen cleaner privies in a refugee camp!
Privy by Momenator August 4, 2014
Adjective
1. Made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret: was privy to classified information. 2. Belonging or proper to a person, such as the British sovereign, in a private rather than official capacity. 3. Secret; concealed.
Noun
Inflected forms: pl.priv·ies 1. a. An outdoor toilet; an outhouse. b. A toilet. 2. Law One of the parties having an interest in the same matter.
Etymology
Middle English prive, from Old French, from Latin pr*v*tus, private, from pr*vus, single, alone; see per1 in Indo-European roots.
privy by Alex95628 May 24, 2005
A lavatory in a shed or other small building outside the house.
When you've finished reading a newspaper, you can tear it up and hang it from a nail in the privy. You can't do that with on-line editions.
Privy by Urban Joe November 6, 2012
a highly ambiguous phrase that can be used much like the word "Smurf" among the smurfs, with its deriviatives taking on other parts of speech. Privy is often used to describe something that is exceedingly cool.
1. Man, did you see when that bird shat in that guys mouth? It was so privy.

2. Check out Privy McPrivyson, Privying down the privy slide.

3. If you're privy to the privy, then privy on over to the council of the priviest bunch of muthaprivers you ever privied with.

4. eB: i shall write LOL
eB: hell, even LOLZ
eB: actually, it should now be POL
eB: privy out loud
privy by Melido Perez September 5, 2005
They are privy to it
Privy by Hoeslappa September 23, 2017
Slang for the word privileged.
Used in both a negative and positive way
Why y’all cutting us in line?! You think you’re privy????

We finna pass all these people cuz we’re privy
privy by halifaxx June 5, 2018