laundromat

[ lawn-druh-mat, lahn- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Laundromat

/ ˈlɔːndrəˌmæt /

a commercial establishment where clothes can be washed and dried, using coin-operated machines Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)Launderettelaundrette

First recorded in 1940–45; formerly a trademark, originally a brand of washer

That list includes apartment complexes, the Chrysler Group, real estate agencies, a laundromat and even a cemetery.

She works part-time in a Laundromat and lives in a homeless shelter in New York with her fiancé and 13-year-old son.

Seriously everywhere: every bar, gas station, grocery store, radio station, church, halfway house, laundromat, and party.

The investigators got just enough to lead them to a building near the laundromat.

She thanked him now over her cellphone as she stood in the Clean and Bright Laundromat on Prospect Avenue.

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