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- noun humorous One who does the
washing up .
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Examples
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You'd look and see someone had turned it to a poem they wanted the next washer-upper to read.
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You'd look and see someone had turned it to a poem they wanted the next washer-upper to read.
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You'd look and see someone had turned it to a poem they wanted the next washer-upper to read.
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Like Orwell, Modi is a plongeur, a washer-upper in a big restaurant and he works six days a week, 12 hours a day cleaning pots and pans.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Recently I returned to Grosvenor House for a lunch, back to where my career began as a washer-upper 43 years ago.
Latest hospitality news from CatererSearch feedback@caterersearch.com 2010
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