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What does gardyloo mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gardyloo? Here's what it means.

Interjection
  1. (Scotland, obsolete) Used by people in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late as the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
Noun
  1. (Scotland, historical) A cry of "gardyloo".
  2. An act of discarding waste or some other substance from a height. Also attributive and figurative.
  3. (figuratively) Caution, warning.
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