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tumble-dry

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tum⋅ble-dry

[tuhm-buhl-drahy]
–verb (used with object) -dried, -dry⋅ing.
to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air.

Origin:
1965–70
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tum·ble-dry   (tŭm'bəl-drī')
tr. & intr.v.   tum·ble-dried, tum·ble-dry·ing, tum·ble-dries
To make or become dry by rolling about in the heated rotating drum of a clothes dryer.
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