"windscreen washer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: windscreen washers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} windscreen washer (plural windscreen washers)
  1. (British) A device that pumps water mixed with detergent from a tank through small nozzles on to the windscreen/windshield of a car in order to clean it. Wikipedia link: windscreen washer Tags: British Synonyms: wet arm system, windshield washer [US], spritzer, schpritzer Translations (device to clean windscreens): tuulilasin pesulaite (Finnish), pissapoika (english: slightly vulgar) (Finnish), tuulilasinpesin (Finnish), lave-glace [masculine] (French), Windschutzscheibenwaschanlage [feminine] (German), lavacristallo [masculine] (Italian)

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