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- verb transitive To
remove something (especially dirt or graffiti) byspraying it with high-pressurewater
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Examples
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Sally will be able to lend her screaming voice to the jetwash at Shea Stadium after all.
William Bradley: Mad Men: "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010
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Sally will be able to lend her screaming voice to the jetwash at Shea Stadium after all.
William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010
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Sally will be able to lend her screaming voice to the jetwash at Shea Stadium after all.
William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010
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Sally will be able to lend her screaming voice to the jetwash at Shea Stadium after all.
William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010
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I can imagine a miffed Osprey being buffeted by jetwash and bombing the intruder in it's airspace.
Flying fish? Glenda Larke 2009
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That generation actually remembers some really crutial stuff that has been nearly blasted away by the jetwash of modernism. things are changing quick. and if you trade a useful education in sustainable design for an ‘elite’ degree in dismissiveness. that sounds like a bad deal.
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The pilot came on the PA and said that air traffic had given another plane a route to altitude in our path and that we had gone through it's jetwash.
Updated: Whoa, That Airplane Is Really Close To Ours - The Consumerist 2008
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The term the pilot used for the jetwash was probably wake turbulence.
Updated: Whoa, That Airplane Is Really Close To Ours - The Consumerist 2008
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What he's talking about is a plane comes up underneath and the jetwash jars the slower, more stable, bigger aircraft and causes turbulence that throws the plane around.
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Another pass showed him the effect of his barnstorming buzz; the two fighters he had flown between had been tipped onto their wingtips by the sonic boom and the jetwash, and the guards had scattered for ships farther down the line to chase him with.
Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990
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