shampooer
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3.1
- noun
- /ʃæmˈpuːər/
- US
:
shampoo
- The shampooer removed stains from the upholstery with ease.
- rug shampooer
- carpet shampooer
And he had this shampooer and he goes, look, and he turned it on and he started shampooing the carpet.
- And he had this shampooer and he goes, look, and he turned it on and he started shampooing the carpet.
Examples
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And he had this shampooer and he goes, look, and he turned it on and he started shampooing the carpet.
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- Shampooer.
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Whenever my mother scrubbed the floor with her peanut-shaped bristle brush or wrestled back and forth across the linoleum with the carpet shampooer that doubled as a floor waxer, I knew to stay out.
Fiction book (1996) -
I rented a powerful shampooer to clean the carpets in my living room.
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Make sure to empty the tank on the shampooer after each use to maintain its performance.
Synonyms
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1.6
A machine that cleans floors and carpets by sucking up dust and dirt
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1.0
An electric machine that cleans floors and carpets by sucking up dust
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1.9
A cleaning machine with revolving brushes you push to pick up dirt from floors
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3.6
A machine that removes dust and dirt from floors and carpets
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3.5
A device with moving brushes that you push over carpets to collect dirt
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5.3
A small hand tool for beating dust out of rugs
A handheld tool people use to remove dust from rugs
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Etymology
Shampooer comes from shampoo, which itself comes from an old Hindi word meaning 'to press' or 'to massage'. Over time shampoo came to mean 'to wash with soap', and adding -er makes it 'one that shampoos', so a shampooer is a machine that cleans carpets by washing them.