windshield-wiper

plural windshield-wipers

1. alternativeAlternative form of windshield wiper.

   General Motors Co. is recalling certain large crossover vehicles from the 2011 and 2012 model years to fix windshield-wipers that may loosen and stop working.

   2012 April 12, Jonathan Welsh, “GM Recalling 50,000 Vehicles To Fix Loose Wipers”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2020

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   “She drove off very fast so that he should not see the tears clouding her view. Mechanically she switched on the windshield-wipers and her gesture tore from her a desperate little laugh” is the way Sagan describes the end of a midday lovers’ quarrel.

   1960 March, Curtis Cate, “The Rise and Decline of Françoise Sagan”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2022, page 94, column 1

   My friends and I were standing on the grass verge of the town’s main road, tossing loose balls of fresh-mown grass at passing cars. One of these stuck in the windshield-wipers of a car (which was probably doing around 60 mph).

   2008 August 20, Charlie Sorrel, “Concept Box Squeezes Mower Clippings into Toys, Furniture”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2015