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wash-overs

wash-overs is the plural of wash-over.

Meaning of wash-over

Noun

wash-over (plural wash-overs)

  1. An act of washing which encompasses the entire surface.
    • "It's bloody, having a wash-over at a basin, and half the time that's choked up and has to be poked out with a bit of wire. And look at the towels that old bitch hands us out - worn to threads. I'd like to soak for an hour in bath-salts to get the sweat and greasepaint off me."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 6

Questions about wash-overs

What is wash-overs the plural of?
Wash-overs is the plural of wash-over.

Words near wash-overs in the dictionary

  1. wash-off
  2. wash-offs
  3. wash-out
  4. wash-outs
  5. wash-over
  6. wash-overs
  7. wash-up
  8. wash-up period
  9. wash-up periods
  10. wash-ups
  11. Wash.

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