window-washer

A form of window washer — A person who cleans windows; especially, one who does so for a living.

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Meanings

nounwindow-washer (plural window-washers)

plural window-washers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of window washer.

    Two window-washers died Oct. 23 after a 10-metre fall when the equipment carrying them, commonly known as a cherrypicker, tipped.

    1989 December 6, “Teenager back home after SkyDome plunge”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page F-1, column 6
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    Yesterday morning a window-washer, employed at the Tremont House, lost his footing and fell from a second-story window on Dearborn street to the sidewalk.

    1867 March 13, Chicago Tribune, volume XX, number 277, Chicago, Ill., page [4], column 1

    She participated in some memorable feature segments, including by joining some window-washers 20 stories up and by riding on the shoulders of Meadowlark Lemon, the Harlem Globetrotter, to dunk a basketball.

    2022 June 8, Neil Genzlinger, “Martha Myers, 97, taught dancers how to move and more”, in The Buffalo News, page B5, column 5
Cite this entry
APA

window-washer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/window-washer

MLA

“window-washer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/window-washer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “window-washer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/window-washer.

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