[
US
/ˈdɹɪpˈdɹaɪ/
]
ADJECTIVE
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used of fabrics that do not require ironing
drip-dry shirts for travel -
treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing
a wash-and-wear shirt
VERB
- dry by hanging up wet
How To Use drip-dry In A Sentence
- This is a world of baronial drip-dry tartan with a flat-pack bothy fit for murder and a ghost that oozes bloodily from a cardboard box, despite the bin-liner. Macbeth, The Love for Three Oranges, Armida, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Apart from anything else, I wore the latter in the Jacuzzi this afternoon and it's still drip-drying in my shower.
- Choosing bright, decorative hooks adds to the entry's appeal, and allows for drip-drying soggy clothes.
- ‘Oh, mate…’ I commented out loud. ‘That must've been drip-dry only.’
- She had bought an amber necklace from the hotel souvenir shop, for a price that she assured me was a real bargain, and had put it right on over one of the exuberantly colored drip-dry polyester blouses that were the mainstay of her traveling wardrobe. Dreaming in French
- How fine it is to kick hooves in the air, stay unsunburned in the sun, wear drip-dry brown fur!
- It's enough to make you head off, sobbing, to buy a pair of Marks & Spencer stay-pressed slacks in easy-care drip-dry nylon.
- If I were you, I'd hang that sweater on the line and let it drip-dry.
- Hang one or two racks in a mudroom or laundry room, and let shoes and garments drip-dry.
- ‘Our bodies are drip-dry,’ says Wendy Bumgardner, Portland, Ore.-based marathon coach and about.com walking columnist.
