Definition of "dry cleaning" []

• The process of cleaning clothes and other fabrics without using water, instead using solvents and specialized equipment. (noun)
• Present participle of dry clean. (verb)

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• "I listened for a voice beyond the prisoner muttering about me in Iowa, beyond the giggling kids watching Just Me and the Kids after school, beyond the bored pressers in a dry cleaning shop flipping through channels and making fun of me to pass the time."
• "“Mr. Darryl Miller of Sunnyvale was just pulling into the strip mall at Henderson and El Camino to drop off his dry cleaning when he was assaulted by a young woman who ripped the directional off his steering column.”"
• "You can green your home as best you can, eat organic, avoid dry cleaning the clothes, throw out the solvents, and buy bedding sans flame retardants, but can you find that hallowed ground far from the chemical-driven American industrial machine?"