twin-tub

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noun

a type of washing machine that has two revolving drums, one for washing and the other for spin-drying

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Words nearby twin-tub

Twins, twin-screw, twinset, twin-size, twin town, twin-tub, twin-twin transfusion, twirl, twirler, twirp, twist

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How to use twin-tub in a sentence

Twin buglers played “Taps” and three police helicopters flew overhead in the missing-man formation.
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Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.
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On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.
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This hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.
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The twin whirlpools threatened the affrightened mariner on either side.
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Very soon afterwards a mollusca had been captured, and placed in a tub filled with sea water.
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Through the rear window, Delancy saw twin swords of light from the lamps of another car not so far behind them.
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Matt listened to the steady hum of the Comet's twin cylinders with an exultation he could not conceal.
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