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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
waterbed

also water-bed, 1610s, "a bed on board a ship," from water (n.1) + bed (n.). As a water-tight mattress filled with water, it is recorded from 1844, originally for invalids to prevent bedsores. Reinvented c.1970 as a stylish furnishing.

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waterbed

alt. A bed with a tough plastic mattress filled with water. n. A bed with a tough plastic mattress filled with water.

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Waterbed

A waterbed, water mattress, or flotation mattress is a bed or mattress filled with water. Waterbeds intended for medical therapies appear in various reports through the 19th century. The modern version, invented in San Francisco and patented in 1971, became an extremely popular consumer item in the United States through the 1980s and 90s. Currently they account for less than 5% of new bed sales.

Waterbed (album)

Waterbed is an album by flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1975 and released on the Atlantic label.

Usage examples of "waterbed".

Debbie and I could climb into a waterbed somewhere and recuperate together, not get out of bed for about a week.

By the time I got to the office, I had a good idea of why the Chisholm Trail Rest Stop Waterbed Motel was well off the main road.

Moonsuit, I scrunched around the waterbed, bumped against a shelf that held a small TV set, and squeezed into a bathroom that was the same size as the wall indentations that once held ironing boards.

Yes, officer, I fled to Oklahoma, but after the Chisholm Trail Rest Stop Waterbed Motel, I was only following orders.

What exactly is happening when you pick up a knife, or push a swing, or make a wave in a waterbed by pressing down on it periodically?

Instead, the electrical charges on your hand are influencing the electrical charges on the knife or swing or waterbed, and vice versa.

Consciousness rising, she realized she was sleeping on a waterbed which accounted for the heat beneath her.

Apparently, eight o'clock was still too early for the Chisholm Trail Rest Stop Waterbed Motel's Saturday night trade to begin.

Hackpole, and the council applied its brainpower to more important matters: barking dogs, the watering of the downtown flowerboxes, and a request from the waterbed store for permission to install a Cuddle Room in which prospective customers might test the product.

Stealthily, he got up from the waterbed and made his way into the kitchen.

If you won my periscope in some shoddy fly-by-night Hollywood strip poker, I would sink three times in my waterbed, never to be seen again.

Now it was a woman sandwiched between two men on a large, heart-shaped waterbed, having simultaneous anal and vaginal sex.