washboard

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Great, and I want be a billionaire with washboard abs.

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device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on

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noun

device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on

noun

protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for washboard.

noun

device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on

noun

protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side

Example sentences

Great, and I want be a billionaire with washboard abs.

I imagine for those, you could use a washboard in a shower/tub.

So you clean your clothes in the stream out back using a washboard and lye you made from white ash?

I say that an old washboard and a bucket of nails can be the equivalent of an orchestra.

It's sad to see full-grown, gaunt men struggling to pedal their rickshaw in flip-flops over washboard roads for pennies.

If those orchestras sounded like a old washboard and a bucket of nails, than I definitely do not want to attend a concert.

The protagonist drove a load of nitroglycerin over washboard by going fast enough to float over the bumps.

There are some potential benefits beyond just ride comfort, reduction of road wear[1] and anti-washboard control on unimproved roads.

You would do excellent transporting nitroglycerin over washboard [1] [2]!

Cooking is an anachronism and it is in no way madness to stop doing it any more than it is madness to use a washing machine instead of a washboard or email instead of the post.

Quote from the "Phase_qubit" Wikipedia article:"The zero voltage state describes one of the two distinct dynamic behaviors displayed by the phase particle, and corresponds to when the particle is trapped in one of the local minima in the washboard potential.

Sorry, I was just describing the last guy that actually did this to me, and those were the aspects that I found physically unattractive... If I had described him as 'totally fit, washboard abs, young guy with handsome square jaw', most people wouldn't understand what I was complaining about!