Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A T-shaped implement having a crosspiece edged with rubber or leather that is drawn across a surface to remove water, as in washing windows.
- noun A similar implement or a rubber roller used in printing and photography.
- transitive verb To wipe or smooth with a squeegee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To treat with a squeegee or squilgee.
- noun Nautical, same as
squilgee . - noun In photography, a stout strip of soft rubber set longitudinally in a wooden back which serves as a handle, and beyond which the rubber projects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc.
- transitive verb To smooth, clean, press, or treat with a squeegee; to squilgee.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tool consisting of arubber blade at right angles to ahandle , used for spreading, pushing or wipingliquid material on, across or off asurface , especially when cleaning glass, eg thewindscreen of avehicle or ashop window , to remove soapy water. - noun slang A
person who cleans thewindscreen of a vehicle stopped intraffic thendemands payment from thedriver . - noun printing A tool used in
silk-screen printing for forcing theink through thestencil and thus printing the desired image. - verb transitive To clean with a squeegee.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb wipe with a squeegee
- noun T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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i also remember swiping a squeegee from a gas station so that every now and then one of us could reach out the window and wipe off the windshield!
Me Me Me 2007
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May 3rd, 2006 at 8: 55 pm katy says: hello ryan – just read something i think you might have fun with … it’s an earlier post, but i’d like to see what you’ll do with it … it may even be child’s play for you … but be nice! squeegee is mostly agreeable … haven’t see you around here lately … have fun!
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Giuliani's quality-of-life legislation against so-called squeegee men and hot dog vendors sparked large-scale strikes and protests from those who believed the mayor's zero-tolerance policy was getting out of hand.
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The rule dates to a time when so-called squeegee men, who roamed the roadways demanding tips in return for washing windshields, were common.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM 2011
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The rule dates to a time when so-called squeegee men, who roamed the roadways demanding tips in return for washing windshields, were common.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM 2011
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In the past three months, four so-called squeegee men have been wiping windshields at 45th Street and 11th Avenue, the New York Post reported Sunday.
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We stop at a red light and one of the neighborhood's "squeegee" men comes up to the car to wipe the windshield, hoping to cadge some change out of us.
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Take a piece of glass an inch larger all round than the print, pour upon it dilute gelatin, and then "squeegee" the print and glass together.
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The thought of having to "squeegee" my own ink vs stamping like a gocco sounds intimidating though … that will probably take practice to get it perfect!
Weddingbee 2009
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It doesn't squish while my toddler is eating, but if I am feeding her some soup, for instance, I can "squeegee" the last bits of soup out of the bottom corner of the bowl!
bilby commented on the word squeegee
Too many es for a word of this size.
May 27, 2009
reesetee commented on the word squeegee
Says who?
Signed, ReeeeeseTeeee
June 3, 2009
dystopos commented on the word squeegee
According to Clifford W. Ashley in "The Yankee Whaler" (1926) a "lipper" is "an oblong piece of blubber with a slotted finger grip, used to squeegee the decks after cutting-in"
December 15, 2009