soaker
IPA: sˈoʊkɝ
noun
- One who, or that which, soaks.
- (slang) A person suffering from alcoholism.
- A kind of knitted woollen diaper.
- A kind of perforated hose used to distribute drips of water to a number of plants.
- (Canada, slang) The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
- (cooking) A mixture of grains softened in water which is added to bread dough.
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Examples of "soaker" in Sentences
- Super Soaker is the best, but it's not the only good one.
- Just dropped it in the soaker and left it for a day or two.
- I've done a fair amount of work on the Super Soaker article.
- The ad shows a kid shooting his water soaker at various people.
- This page needs a Model Ranges section like on the SUper SOaker page.
- The most common approach to power attenuation is the 'power soaker' approach.
- Sister Gloria finishes Angela off with a super soaker filled with holy water.
- Over the years, Super Soaker sales have totaled close to one billion dollars.
- The night before you want to bake, combine all the "soaker" ingredients in a small bowl.
- VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - It's a yearly reminder, that could save you from getting a 'soaker'.
- One day he received a "soaker" of a snowball in his left ear while hurrying to the gymnasium.
- Calling the storm a "super soaker," forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said it could dump 10 to 15 inches of rain throughout the region and trigger a storm surge of two to four feet.
- So tonight we move out again, to our own place, where I can drink a beer and sit on the patio with my super-soaker, keeping the parking lot safe from drunken idiots with illegal fireworks on my small rented patch of America.
- The fully-furnished one-bedroom apartment boasted all the amenities you could ask for: a luxury bedroom, a spacious bathroom with both a big soaker tub and a rainhead shower, a fully equipped kitchen and a stylish, comfy living room.
- The recipe calls for two pre-doughs, a biga (Italian bread starter), which has to be refrigerated overnight, and a soaker, which is some of the flour (in this case-- it can also be whole grains) with liquid and sometimes a little salt.
- Full many a lad fell on the battlements that were thrown up in haste, only to rise again and fight until a "soaker," wrung out in the gutter and laid away to harden in the frost, caught him in the eye and sent him to the rear, a reeling, bawling invalid, but prouder of his hurt than any veteran of his scars, just as his gang carried the band stand by storm and drove the Seventh-streeters from the Garden in ignominious flight.