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washer-upper en · NOUN
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(humorous) One who does the washing up.
[…] the young man or woman who serves us in the fast food outlet, the washer-upper, the supervisor and the manager.
1988, Yiannis Gabriel, Working Lives in Catering:[…] not just as a tool extends human effort but as innovations substitute for old travails (the dishwasher purportedly releasing the washer-upper […]
2005, Marilyn Strathern, Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:As my new mother-in-law said, she is not losing a daughter but gaining a washer-upper.
2001, Katey Day, Speeches: What to Say at Weddings and When to Say It:
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