Definitions
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- noun a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air
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Examples
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We have a tumble-dryer, but we also have a bathroom that has a gas-powered drying facility, and gas, my wife assures me, is cheaper than electricity.
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In no time, or, as he puts it, "exactly three weeks since hell's tumble-dryer went to work on our lives," Vernon finds himself charged with murder as well.
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Puffed-up politicians on both sides of the House seek from new arrivals a pledge of citizenship that endorses "Australian values" at a time when our values are tangled in a global tumble-dryer.
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She was surprised when she heard him on the phone, not that she could hear what he was saying as the tumble-dryer sounded like an express train shuddering through the kitchen.
Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992
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The moment she got back, she promised herself, she would persuade Humphrey to marry her; never mind the tumble-dryer and the fitted carpets, they could come later.
Heidelberg Wedding Neels, Betty 1984
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No, to go out with a bang, Big Brother must get those that were the best value ... and downright idiotic ... and put them all in the media tumble-dryer once again and let us all hoot and wail with sneering mockery.
TV Scoop 2010
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A bedroom that's too small to accommodate my kingsize bed - which is in the living-room - a kitchen that is too small to put a cooker in ( in my situation I find a fridge-freezer & a tumble-dryer more necessary), a wetroom (aah, the luxury!) and a storeroom, which some residents, apparently, use as a guest-bedroom.
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No, to go out with a bang, Big Brother must get those that were the best value ... and downright idiotic ... and put them all in the media tumble-dryer once again and let us all hoot and wail with sneering mockery.
TV Scoop 2010
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The drive itself around the island was a rollercoaster-cum-oven not unlike being chucked in a tumble-dryer .... bumpy and steaming hot.
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Is it humane to keep a tumble-dryer that can develop a crush on you?
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