LAUNDRYMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laundryman mean? 

• LAUNDRYMAN (noun)
  The noun LAUNDRYMAN has 1 sense:

1. operates industrial washing machine

  Familiarity information: LAUNDRYMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAUNDRYMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Operates industrial washing machine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

laundryman; washerman

Hypernyms ("laundryman" is a kind of...):

washer (someone who washes things for a living)

 Context examples 

It softened the blow of his having been a laundryman, and though she could not understand a line of it, she knew that every line of it was great.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My name's Dawson, Joe Dawson, an' I'm tryin' to scare up a laundryman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On Tuesday night the new laundrymen arrived, and the rest of the week was spent breaking them into the routine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At ten o'clock, while the hotel guests slept, the two laundrymen sweated on at "fancy starch" till midnight, till one, till two.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin took a bath, after which he found that the head laundryman had disappeared.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Make that two laundrymen," he said abruptly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

While Martin changed the telegram to "two laundrymen," Joe went on: I never wanted to drink when I was in hospital. Funny, ain't it?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The succeeding minute he had been bothered by the ex-laundryman's presence and by the compulsion of conversation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Few persons ever meet the fairy princes they dream about; but Maria, who worked hard and whose head was hard, never dreaming about fairy princes, entertained hers in the guise of an ex-laundryman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)