handsoap

plural handsoaps · alternative hand soap · alternative hand-soap

1. countableuncountableA (bar or liquid) soap for the hands.

   In its modest way, Gardeski’s handsoaps — and things that look like other things — play to both of these tendencies at once through the double take that comes with spotting a familiar thing that turns out to be wholly unfamiliar.

   2008 January 13, Rob Walker, “Imitation of Life”, in New York Times