cleaner
an apparatus or machine for cleaning, as a vacuum cleaner.
a preparation for use in cleaning, as a detergent or chemical bleach.
the owner or operator of a dry-cleaning establishment: The cleaner said he couldn't get the spot off my coat.
Usually cleaners. a dry-cleaning establishment: My suit is at the cleaners.
Idioms about cleaner
take to the cleaners, Slang. to cause to lose all or a great deal of one's money or personal property, as through gambling or a bad investment: He got taken to the cleaners in the poker game last night.
Origin of cleaner
1Other words from cleaner
- pre·clean·er, noun
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How to use cleaner in a sentence
Cleaners at dawn preparing a mosque for a handful of worshippers.
Syria’s Underground Film Club: Anonymous ‘Emergency Cinema,’ No Dead Bodies | Nina Strochlic | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome have found Ecstasy to be cut with other dangerous chemicals such as pesticides, chlorine, and toxic household cleaners.
Miley, Molly, and Your Teen’s Mind | Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD, Tej Azad | May 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHE was arrested for drug trafficking outside the dry cleaners and police found a wad of cash in his left front pocket.
At one point, the police observed Lisi entered the Richview Cleaners and emerge with a pizza box.
The reflex is to say China is going to take us to the cleaners, right?
Sunday Q&A: Josef Joffe on the Myth of American Decline | Michael Moynihan | November 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
They require frequent cleaning with a long wire and a bit of tow, and in some large towns there are professional pipe-cleaners.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Occasionally faint sounds came from the distance—the movements of cleaners at work, a raised voice, the slamming of a door.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThese things are not as quick or as easy to use as many patent brass cleaners which one can buy nowadays.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping | Elizabeth Hale GilmanMention here the help to be found in vacuum cleaners, modern dusters, carpet sweepers, and other housekeeping helps.
The Complete Club Book for Women | Caroline French BentonThe cleansing door at one end and that lined with asbestos at the other, are to admit the passage of the tube cleaners.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught | Joshua Rose
British Dictionary definitions for cleaner
/ (ˈkliːnə) /
a person, device, chemical agent, etc, that removes dirt, as from clothes or carpets
(usually plural) a shop, etc that provides a dry-cleaning service
take a person to the cleaners informal to rob or defraud a person of all of his money
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