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- verb Common misspelling of
dry clean .
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Examples
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It won't wear or dryclean great, but it'll fit you like a champ.
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It won't wear or dryclean great, but it'll fit you like a champ.
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Don't refuse to dryclean David Addington's suits because I said so.
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Dear ladies (and sirs), that last is reason alone to try to remember to WASH - not dryclean - your (washable) fabrics when you get them home, instead of waiting until just before you sew them to preshrink them.
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However, iron doesn't wash particularly well, so iron would be for dryclean-only garments.
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Since I can't hope to find a place that'll dryclean with a three-hour turnaround I want to wear this coat tonight and it's just musty, I've sprayed it with Febreeze and left it to hang outside for a while to air.
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Those you have to dryclean, but you can cut back on by hanging up your clothes just like your mom told you, and kind of brushing off the lint and so when you get home each night.
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Paid bills most - there's one I can't find, so should hunt for it, then went shopping for some new pants: my old ones went through the wash by accident, and dryclean-only crepe wool shrinks atrociously.
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Some of you might say that maybe it's because she doesn't have that many names to remember, but if you go into her clean store, you will see that there are tons of people who dryclean their clothes there.
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It's impossible to dryclean them every night, so they spray them with vodka.
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