Definition of "tollbooth" [toll•booth]

• A booth where a toll is collected. Also called tollhouse. (noun)
• Variant of tolbooth. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Level 3 Communications, a Colorado-based Internet company whose main client is the movie-rental service Netflix, said Monday that Comcast's action amounts to setting up a "tollbooth" on the Internet."
• "I mean, if I look out the car window I see the tollbooth, which is how I know we’re coming up to the Rhinecliff Bridge."
• "The main beneficiaries of the arrangements were the Hanseatic League cities and their Hanse merchants (which/who controlled the trade), and the Danish crown (which controlled the "tollbooth" at the straits)."