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mercy flushes

mercy flushes is the plural of mercy flush.

Meaning of mercy flush

Noun

mercy flush (plural mercy flushes)

  1. (slang) An additional toilet flush to reduce odor or decrease the likelihood of the toilet pipes becoming clogged.
    • A more usual problem with a hatch is that it was shut too tightly. Rig for dive checks can be done submerged, with sea pressure on the outer hatch. New JOs, doing the check, sometimes forget and shut the outer hatch even more tightly when checking it shut. Subsequently, opening the hatch on the...1995 October 18, Doug Huffman, “Seawater in submarines”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet)

Questions about mercy flushes

What is mercy flushes the plural of?
Mercy flushes is the plural of mercy flush.

Words near mercy flushes in the dictionary

  1. mercy bucket
  2. mercy buckets
  3. mercy chair
  4. mercy chairs
  5. mercy flush
  6. mercy flushes
  7. mercy fuck
  8. mercy fucks
  9. mercy killer
  10. mercy killers
  11. mercy killing

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