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prop wash

or propwash

noun

, Informal.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of prop wash1

First recorded in 1940–45

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Example Sentences

The one whose feet you dusted off with the prop-wash of the plane?

Rick saw Scotty emerge from the lab building and go right back in again as the prop wash caught him.

Rick shot across the hotel within five feet of the chimney and dropped so low that his prop wash flattened the reeds in the marsh.

He had heard the rush of the prop-wash, but he had seen nothing, heard nothing else.

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