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hospital soap

hospital soap noun: a type of antiseptic soap designed for use in hospitals.

Noun

hospital soap (uncountable)

  1. A type of antiseptic soap designed for use in hospitals.
    • Rupert Sheffield, scrubbing John's blood from his hands with a nailbrush and hospital soap, swore that this was the last time [...] that he would have to do this.2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303

Origin of hospital soap

From hospital + soap.

Questions about hospital soap

What does hospital soap mean?
Hospital soap means a type of antiseptic soap designed for use in hospitals.
What part of speech is hospital soap?
Hospital soap is a noun.

Words near hospital soap in the dictionary

  1. Hospital Row
  2. Hospital Saturday
  3. Hospital Saturdays
  4. hospital ship
  5. hospital ships
  6. hospital soap
  7. hospital sock
  8. hospital socks
  9. Hospital Sunday
  10. Hospital Sundays
  11. hospitalary

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