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windshield wipers

windshield wipers is the plural 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”).

Questions about windshield wipers

What is windshield wipers the plural of?
Windshield wipers is the plural of windshield wiper.

Words near windshield wipers in the dictionary

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

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