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Definition of Squeegee

1. Verb. Wipe with a squeegee. "Squeegee the windows"

2. Noun. T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows).

Definition of Squeegee

1. n. Same as Squilgee.

2. v. t. To smooth, press, or treat with a squeegee; to squilgee.

Definition of Squeegee

1. Noun. A tool consisting of a rubber blade at right angles to a handle, used for spreading, pushing or wiping liquid material on, across or off a surface, especially when cleaning glass, eg the windscreen of a vehicle or a shop window, to remove soapy water. ¹

2. Noun. (slang) A person who cleans the windscreen of a vehicle stopped in traffic then demands payment from the driver. ¹

3. Noun. (printing) A tool used in silk-screen printing for forcing the ink through the stencil and thus printing the desired image. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To clean with a squeegee. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Squeegee

1. to wipe with a squeegee (an implement for removing water from a surface) [v -GEED, -GEEING, -GEES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squeegee

squealed squealer squealers squealing squealingly squealling squeals squeamish squeamishly squeamishness

squeamishnesses squeamous squeasy squee squeed squeegee (current term) squeegeed squeegeeing squeegeelike squeegees

squeeing squees squeezabilities squeezability squeezable squeezableness squeezably squeeze squeeze box squeeze by

Literary usage of Squeegee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"squeegee Machine Cleaning. squeegee machine cleaning is confined exclusively ... squeegee cleaning is intended primarily for roadways where the dirt to l>e ..."

2. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"squeegee Machine Cleaning. squeegee machine cleaning is confined exclusively ... The squeegee gang unit should consist of a horse-drawn sprinkler followed ..."

3. The photographic studios of Europe by Henry Baden Pritchard (1882)
"... placed upon the cardboard, and then pressed down, and the superfluous glue removed with a squeegee. We should like to have described Mr. Barton's low, ..."

4. A New Treatise on the Modern Methods of Carbon Printing by Albert Martin Marton (1905)
"The drag squeegee must always be used in transferring the tissue to the ... DRAG squeegee. There is quite a knack in using this tool to the best advantage. ..."

5. Henley's Twentieth Century Forrmulas, Recipes and Processes: Containing Ten by Gardner Dexter Hiscox (1914)
"Clean olT the films, polish with French chalk, and squeegee your prints thereto. ... squeegee down on this a print, and an opaline will be your reward. ..."

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