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  • noun Plural form of lav.

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Examples

  • I wore a mask and rubber gloves when doing the lavs.

    Peach Susan Tepper 2011

  • We're stuck here with no lavs, no nothing, no food.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2009 2009

  • In all their "get rich quick in the property market, dry rot repairs, two lavs replacement rip off the taxpayer for all we can get" ugliness.

    CHANGE THE POLITICIANS 2009

  • We're stuck here with no lavs, no nothing, no food.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2009 2009

  • Further, estimates of the change in solar irradiance during the past few hundred years have decreased significantly as can be seen in the graph below from Skeptical Science but not in the latest from Robinson lavs.

    Archive 2008-06-01 EliRabett 2008

  • You lock the lavs, anything that would fly around the cabin.

    CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2005 2005

  • Behind partitions on opposite sides of the compartment were entries to two standard wash-lavs.

    The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven

  • It's safe to assume Walmart bathrooms are cleaned much more frequently than the lavs where flight attendants hang bags of coffee to cover the ever-present stench.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tiffany Hawk 2012

  • That building is now being turned into deluxe flats, Dalston has become a transport hub, and Ergen has taken his vision - which includes programmes for schools, and plays designed to encourage co-operation between local Turkish and Kurdish residents - into a beautiful industrial mansion: an 1868 factory built by Reeves, the paint manufacturers, a vaulting space with exposed brick and currently rather over-exposed lavs, iron pillars, a smell of sawdust and possibility.

    The Guardian World News Susannah Clapp 2011

  • Vessel sink: Technically a top-mount sink, but these high-end lavs expose the entire bowl above the countertop.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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