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shampooer

shampooer noun: a machine for shampooing carpets.

shampooer: a machine for shampooing carpets
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Noun

shampooer (plural shampooers)

  1. A machine for shampooing carpets.
    • I felt like a home appliance one seldom buys but rents when needed, something like a rug shampooer.1988, Edmund White, chapter 8, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
  2. A person (such as a hairdresser) who washes hair.

Forms of shampooer

pluralshampooers

Origin of shampooer

From shampoo + -er.

Questions about shampooer

What does shampooer mean?
Shampooer means a machine for shampooing carpets.
What part of speech is shampooer?
Shampooer is a noun.
What is the plural of shampooer?
The plural of shampooer is shampooers.

Words near shampooer in the dictionary

  1. shampoo bowls
  2. shampoo ginger
  3. shampoo gingers
  4. shampooable
  5. shampooed
  6. shampooer
  7. shampooers
  8. shampooey
  9. shampooing
  10. shampooings
  11. shampoolike

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