blue room

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Noun

blue room (plural blue rooms)

  1. In cinema, a room with blue (or occasionally green) walls in which effects shots are filmed.
  2. (aviation, slang) The toilet/washroom on a passenger aircraft.
    • 1980, Robert J. Serling, From the captain to the colonel, page 423:
      Phyllis Ash was working a flight where the smooth routine was suddenly interrupted by a ten-year-old boy who went to the "blue room" (toilet) and proceeded to get his penis stuck in his zipper.
    • 2019, Colin C. Law, A Flight Attendant's Essential Guide, page 4:
      [] they intended to use the “blue room”, or lavatory.

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