prop wash

or propwash

noun

, Informal.

1. propeller wash.

Word History and Origins

Origin of prop wash¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

The one whose feet you dusted off with the prop-wash of the plane?

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Rick saw Scotty emerge from the lab building and go right back in again as the prop wash caught him.

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Rick shot across the hotel within five feet of the chimney and dropped so low that his prop wash flattened the reeds in the marsh.

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He had heard the rush of the prop-wash, but he had seen nothing, heard nothing else.

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