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wash, rinse, repeat

wash, rinse, repeat is the alternative form of lather.

Meaning of lather

Noun

lather (countable and uncountable, plural lathers)

  1. The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
    • Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 3
    Synonyms:
    suds, soap suds
  2. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
  3. (countable) A state of agitation.

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Questions about wash, rinse, repeat

What is wash, rinse, repeat the alternative form of?
Wash, rinse, repeat is the alternative form of lather.

Words near wash, rinse, repeat in the dictionary

  1. wash tubs
  2. wash up
  3. wash ups
  4. wash your sister sauce
  5. wash'd
  6. wash, rinse, repeat
  7. wash-and-wear
  8. wash-ball
  9. wash-balls
  10. wash-basin
  11. wash-basins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wash, rinse, repeat (page history and authors); lather (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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