Maytag

plural Maytags

1. A surname from German.

plural Maytags

1. A washing machine made by the Maytag company.

   Enid’s alchemical lab beneath the kitchen contained a Maytag with a wringer that swung over it, twinned rubber rollers like enormous black lips.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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   The last thing I want to have to do on a good sunny day is sit in a laundromat and listen to automatic Maytags fill and drain themselves of gallons of water.

   1983, Monterey Life, volume 4, numbers 7-12, page 45

present singular third person Maytags · participle present Maytagging · participle past Maytagged · past Maytagged

1. slangtransitivewater sportsOf a powerful current, wave, or hydraulic hole: to trap and repeatedly spin (a person etc.) underwater.

   I keep getting Maytagged by rapids when whitewater rafting.