Meanings
nounwash-over (plural wash-overs)
plural wash-overs
- An act of washing which encompasses the entire surface.
"It's bloody, having a wash-over at a basin, and half the time that's choked up and has to be poked out with a bit of wire. And look at the towels that old bitch hands us out - worn to threads. I'd like to soak for an hour in bath-salts to get the sweat and greasepaint off me."
1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 6
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