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prop washes

prop washes is the plural of prop wash.

Meaning of prop wash

Noun

prop wash (countable and uncountable, plural prop washes)

  1. The disturbed mass of air or water pushed aft (or forward when in reverse) by the propeller of an aircraft or propeller-driven watercraft.
    • The plane's large rear doors swallowed up my friend in superfast time, its departure sandblasting everyone in red prop wash as it vaporised down the main street and into the afternoon's dust-bowl sky.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 23
    Synonyms:
    prop blast
  2. A byproduct of thrust produced by a propeller.
  3. (humorous) A mythical substance supposedly used to wash propellers.
    • We sent the new recruit to obtain a bucket of prop wash.

Questions about prop washes

What is prop washes the plural of?
Prop washes is the plural of prop wash.

Words near prop washes in the dictionary

  1. prop up
  2. prop up the bar
  3. prop vowel
  4. prop vowels
  5. prop wash
  6. prop washes
  7. prop-
  8. prop-jet
  9. prop-jets
  10. prop.
  11. propa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prop washes (page history and authors); prop wash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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