cleaner
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cleaner/ˈkliːnə(r)/
▶noun a person or thing that cleans.
■ (the cleaners) a shop where clothes and fabrics are dry-cleaned.
– phrases
take someone to the cleaners informal
take someone to the cleaners informal
- 1 unscrupulously take all someone's money or possessions.
- 2 inflict a crushing defeat on someone.
'cleaner' also found in these Oxford entries:
charwoman
- cleaner fish
- dry-clean
- Hoover
- pipe cleaner
- trichloroethane
- vac
- vacuum
- vacuum cleaner
