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trouser press
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trouser press
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All rooms have central heating, direct dial telephone, television, tea making facilities, hairdryers, trouser press, etc.
▪ Now, women on television are depicted as tough cookies who need a man like a fish needs a trouser press.
▪ There is a trouser press in every manservant's room.
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trouser press

n. electrical appliance used to smooth the wrinkles from a pair of trousers

WordNet
trouser press

n. a home appliance in which trousers can be hung and the wrinkles pressed out [syn: pants presser]

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Trouser press

A trouser press, sometimes referred to as a Corby Trouser Press, is an electrical appliance used to smooth the wrinkles from a pair of trousers (pants in Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United States). They are commonly provided in hotel rooms, though may also be purchased for home use; they are generally associated with use by businessmen who require a formal appearance to their suit.

Usage examples of "trouser press".

I played with the TV, confiscated the stationery and spare tablet of soap, and put a pair of trousers in the trouser press - at these prices I was determined to extract full value from the experience -even though I knew that the trousers would come out with permanent pleats in the oddest places.

It wasn't comfortable attire for air travel, where the seat size, leg room and safety belt seemed designed to do roughly the opposite of a Corby Trouser Press, to say nothing of the constant precipitous fear that your in-flight meal, drink and tea or coffee (sir?