Meaning

8 senses
  1. A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle.

  2. A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle.

    A long-handled tool with a blade used for cleaning and/or drying surfaces, or for levelling paths, roadways, etc.

  3. A short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc.

    Abzieher, Gummiabzieher, Gummiwischer

    ра́кельrákelʹ, рези́новая шва́браrezínovaja švábra, скребо́кskrebók

  4. A long-handled tool with a blade used on ships for swabbing decks and spreading protective coatings.

  5. A tool consisting of a roller attached to a handle, used for applying pressure, removing liquid, etc.

    (historical)A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller with blades pulled by a horse.

  6. A tool used to press film into a mount, remove excess moisture from a print, etc.; a squeezer.

  7. A tool with a roller or blade used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing.

    Rakel

  8. (slang)A person who uses a squeegee (noun sense 1.2); specifically, one who makes an unsolicited attempt to clean the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then requests payment; a squeegee bandit.

More definitions
  • T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows)

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Whenever I get gas, I make sure to squeegee my windows.

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  2. Tom grabbed a squeegee to wipe the condensation off the windshield.

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  3. Squeegee the shower walls to prevent soap scum buildup.

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  4. After washing the car, Tom finished by running a squeegee over the windows for a streak-free shine.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc.:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc.:
tool used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing:

Origin

The noun is probably derived from squeege (“(informal, dated) to squeeze”, verb) (an inten

The noun is probably derived from squeege (“(informal, dated) to squeeze”, verb) (an intensified form of squeeze (verb)) + -ee (suffix attached to verbs to form nouns meaning persons or things that are the subjects of the verbs). Compare earlier squilgee, squillgee (“tool in the form of a mop or swab, or a blade with a long handle, used for cleaning and/or drying a vessel’s deck”).

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Forms

plural: squeegees
Singularsqueegee
Pluralsqueegees

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
squilgeesqueegee kidsqueegee thug

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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