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clothes hamper

n. a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried [syn: laundry basket, clothes basket, voider]

Usage examples of "clothes hamper".

She dropped the sleepsuit into the clothes hamper in her bathroom.

Since it was only me, I figured it was fine to have the dirty clothes hamper where it was convenient to drag out the front door.

If her mother asked what the damp panties were doing in the dirty-clothes hamper, Jessie would simply say it was so hot she went for a dip without changing out of her shorts.

She would change into the street clothes that had been made for her, and by 1:45 she would be lying in the bottom of the large clothes hamper, covered over with uniforms and linens.

He put them in the clothes hamper and we had to give them back to him and ask him to put them elsewhere, or sooner or later they would get into the washing machine.

As he turned to leave the kitchen, where Bobbi kept the alcoholic staples as well as the clothes hamper, something clitter-clicked to the boards.

Speaking of washables, we found everything but a dirty-clothes hamper.

The clothes hamper was a large wicker basket near the courtyard door, handy both for the well and cauldron in which the linen would be boiled if washed in the inn.