washup

American  

[wosh-uhp, wawsh-] / ˈwɒʃˌʌp, ˈwɔʃ- /

Or wash-up

noun

1. an act of washing.

   Allow five minutes for washup.

2. a place, as a bathroom, for washing.

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Etymology

Origin of washup

First recorded in 1865–70; noun use of verb phrase wash up

Example Sentences

After a quick washup at the hotel, we pulled on our boots and headed into‌ the historic district of Gruene‌ for a strut about town‌.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022

Other scenes crackle comfortably: O'Neal cravenly having his backbone slapped into shape in the men's washup; Andrews placidly playing croquet on his front lawn under the snout of an anti-aircraft battery.

From Time Magazine Archive

For eight days, miners from Washington State to Appalachia had filed into hundreds of washup shacks to vote�polling places with names like "Bill Shelby's bathhouse at the foot of Chicken Ridge."

From Time Magazine Archive

S.P. previously had granted 39 minutes of daily relief and washup time; the U.A.W. wanted 83 minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here they washup him, or else knuckle under to him, like a skeery Coster's missus when her old man's on the mawl, and feels round arter her ribs with his bloomin' high-lows.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 by Various