Usually means: Ridged surface for scrubbing clothes.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word washboard:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. washboard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. washboard: Merriam-Webster
  3. washboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. washboard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. washboard: Collins English Dictionary
  6. washboard: Vocabulary.com
  7. Washboard, washboard: Wordnik
  8. washboard: Wiktionary
  9. washboard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. washboard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. washboard: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. washboard: Dictionary.com
  13. washboard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Washboard (disambiguation), Washboard (laundry), Washboard (musical instrument), Washboard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Washboard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. washboard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. washboard: Rhymezone
  18. Washboard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. washboard: FreeDictionary.org
  20. washboard: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. washboard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. washboard: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. washboard: The Folk File
  2. washboard: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Washboard: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See washboarding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed.
noun:  (music) Such a board used as a simple percussion instrument.
noun:  (nautical) A board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard.
noun:  (road transport) A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road caused by interaction between traffic and road surface.
noun:  (dated) Baseboard; skirting board.
verb:  To produce a rippled texture on a surface.
verb:  (music) To play a washboard.
verb:  (bees) To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax.
noun:  (bodybuilding, colloquial) Ellipsis of washboard abs. [(bodybuilding) six-pack (highly developed set of abdominal muscles)]

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