pants presser
- noun
- Archaic
:
prensa de pantalones
- I bought a new pants presser yesterday.
Examples
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She bought a new pants presser to keep her suits looking sharp.
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The hotel room had a pants presser for guests' convenience.
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After work, he put his trousers in the pants presser to smooth out the wrinkles.
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The pants presser is a must-have for my laundry room.
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She used a pants presser to ensure her trousers looked sharp for the interview.
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After washing his pants, he relied on the pants presser to get rid of any wrinkles.
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The dry cleaner has a special pants presser that makes trousers look brand new.
Synonyms
1
9.1
A machine that presses laundry between heavy rollers
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4.4
A person or machine that removes wrinkles from clothes by pressing them
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3.2
A machine that uses hot steam to make clothes flat and remove wrinkles
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5.1
A person or machine that flattens clothes to remove wrinkles
A machine that removes creases from trousers with warm flat pads
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'device for removing wrinkles from trousers' is directly derivable from combining 'pants' (trousers) with 'presser' (person or machine that presses). This noun-noun compound follows a regular, compositional pattern (item + tool/agent) found in English and many other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pants presser comes from its literal parts: pants (trousers) and presser (something that presses). It names a machine that puts your trousers between heated plates to 'remove wrinkles', so the word itself explains its job.