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scrubdown

scrubdown noun: a thorough scrubbing to clean something from top to bottom.

Noun

scrubdown (plural scrubdowns)

  1. A thorough scrubbing to clean something from top to bottom.
    • Within a week or so a strict regimen of cleanliness wherever there was food or crumbs or spills, coupled with repeated thorough scrubdowns with vinegar and water, rid us of the pests and set a higher standard so that it did not occur again.2011, Gordon W. Stead, A Leaf upon the Sea: A Small Ship in the Mediterranean, 1941-1943

Forms of scrubdown

pluralscrubdowns

Origin of scrubdown

Deverbal from scrub down.

Questions about scrubdown

What does scrubdown mean?
Scrubdown means a thorough scrubbing to clean something from top to bottom.
What part of speech is scrubdown?
Scrubdown is a noun.
What is the plural of scrubdown?
The plural of scrubdown is scrubdowns.

Words near scrubdown in the dictionary

  1. scrubbird
  2. scrubbirds
  3. scrubboard
  4. scrubboards
  5. scrubby
  6. scrubdown
  7. scrubdowns
  8. scrubeenie
  9. scrubeenies
  10. scrubfowl
  11. scrubfowls

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