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Meanings of drip-dry in English

Used of fabrics that do not require ironing.

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Treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing.

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Examples for "wash-and-wear"
1
I want a whole new line of wash-and-wear swatches from the mills.
A Confederacy of Dunces
2
The jeans and pullover were bad enough, but the wash-and-wear hair and zero makeup had me cringing.
Exit strategy
3
Normally, I'd fall somewhere in the middle: the nature-girl look, with wash-and-wear hair, fading summer tan and tinted lip gloss.
Exit strategy
4
He said the synthetics and the wash-and-wear fabrics have hurt the business since he first got into the field 9 years ago.
The new yorker
5
Only the roughest wash-and-wear old clothes dealer would pick over these rags far enough to find the embroidered namebands sewn inside the neck.
Shadows in Bronze
Usage of drip-dry in English
1
What if you prefer to drip-dry?
Wired
2
The washed dishes from supper were still heaped up in the drainer, where Wendy had left them to drip-dry.
The Shining
3
And far more cloth has to to be cut & wasted... Hatha way's drip-dry print collection includes 30 different patterns.
The new yorker
4
After rinsing out the drip-dry shirt, he selected a wooden hanger for it and hooked it on the curtain rod.
Aground
5
Storage If wet, let your harness drip-dry before storing, and store away from temperature extremes, nibbling pests (mice!
Climbing Magazine
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And here's another sport shirt, a drip-dry.' He added socks, belt, a pair of slippers, handkerchiefs, and a spare safety razor.
And the deep blue sea
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Two one-hundred-percent-synthetic drip-dry white long-sleeved dress shirts: $11.00 each.
86'd: a novel
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I worked there, standing in a drip-dry white coat with a picture of a little Italian man and "Mr REAlly Good" written on the pocket.
The Guardian