laundry basket
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- noun
- /ˈlɔːndri ˈbæskɪt/
:
cesta de ropa
- After doing the laundry, I placed the freshly washed shirts back in the laundry basket.
- a full laundry basket
- a plastic laundry basket
- a wicker laundry basket
And you can even get laundry baskets that have a basketball net on them as well.
- And you can even get laundry baskets that have a basketball net on them as well.
- So when the guy with the guys go into the room, they shovel in a bunch of money into a fucking laundry basket, bring it out to us.
- She has a magic laundry basket and I have a magic bank account.
- Here I have my laundry baskets.
- She put the kid in a laundry basket and it died and she got charged rightfully with murder.
Examples
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Frida and Jennifer are each holding laundry baskets full of laundry.
Fiction book (1999) -
I retrieved my laundry basket and headed toward the basement steps.
Fiction book (2001) -
And we have a laundry basket, which is pretty standard.
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Did you drop a glass in the laundry basket at our party?
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Look under the laundry basket.
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We currently switched things around in our house, and my laundry basket is in a new place.
Blog text (6) -
What's this gunk on the bottom of the laundry basket?
Fiction book (2001) -
"I checked my dresser drawers again and rooted through the laundry basket.
Fiction book (2001) -
We stood frozen, shielding the laundry baskets from her view, attempting to prolong the inevitable.
Fiction book (1997) -
Jack's flat - bedroom - night. Marion, undressed, pulls the old nightgown from the laundry basket.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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A large basket with a lid used to carry or store clothes
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A basket that holds dirty clothes before washing
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A large container with handles for holding dirty clothes before washing
A basket for holding dirty or wet clothes before they are washed
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Morphology
The meaning 'a container for holding clothes to be washed or just washed' is directly and compositionally derived from 'laundry' (clothes awaiting or just washed) + 'basket' (a container). This straightforward noun-noun compound follows common cross-linguistic compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Laundry basket The phrase laundry basket comes from the simple picture of a woven basket used to carry dirty laundry to the place where people washed clothes. That's why it means 'a container for clothes that need to be washed or have just been washed'.