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windshield-wiper

windshield-wiper is the alternative form of windshield wiper.

Meaning of windshield wiper

Noun

windshield wiper (plural windshield wipers)

  1. (Canada, US) Synonym of windscreen wiper (“device for a vehicle”).
    • Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013
  2. Synonym of windscreen wiper (“exercise movement”).

Forms of windshield-wiper

pluralwindshield-wipers

Questions about windshield-wiper

What is windshield-wiper the alternative form of?
Windshield-wiper is the alternative form of windshield wiper.

Words near windshield-wiper in the dictionary

  1. windshield time
  2. windshield washer
  3. windshield washers
  4. windshield wiper
  5. windshield wipers
  6. windshield-wiper
  7. windshield-wipers
  8. windshielded
  9. windshielding
  10. windshields
  11. windship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windshield-wiper (page history and authors); windshield wiper (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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