washer-dryer

[wosh-er-drahy-er, waw-sher-]

noun

1. a washing machine and a clothes dryer combined in one unit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of washer-dryer¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Showbiz speaker Billy Crystal, a longtime Palisades resident whose home burned down in January, joked about the students wrapping up the school year in an “abandoned Sears building” where he “once bought a washer-dryer.”

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It had the stature of a standing washer-dryer, with black buttons, rows of blinking lights and gauges labeled with celestial bodies — “sun,” “moon,” and the eight planets — on the front of its white facade.

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“I’ve got to say, it would be so funny if this is what takes Trump down, huh? Can you imagine, he tried to overthrow the government, but then they get him for lying about having an in-unit washer-dryer?”

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We’re all in this struggle together, and one day, I’m going to have an apartment with a washer-dryer in the apartment.

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They had a long tenure at WRC, an NBC-owned radio station, and in one skit mocked NBC’s flagship news program, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report,” as “The Washer-Dryer Report.”

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