Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jet dryer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: jet dry-er
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A piece of racetrack maintenance equipment, a truck or trailer equipped with a gas turbine jet engine (which does not provide motive or electrical power), that provides copious amounts of hot air, which is used to blow dry the track surface.

noun

Ellipsis of jet hand dryer.

Etymology

From jet + dryer. From being a device that projects a jet of air used to dry a surface.

Inflected Forms

jet dryers (plural)

Questions

What does jet dryer mean?: A piece of racetrack maintenance equipment, a truck or trailer equipped with a gas turbine jet engine (which does not provide motive or electrical power), that provides copious amounts of hot air, which is used to blow dry the track surface.
Where does jet dryer come from?: From jet + dryer. From being a device that projects a jet of air used to dry a surface.

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