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Definition of "foldaway" [foldaway]

  • Designed to be folded up for easy storage: a foldaway bed. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "foldaway" in a sentence
  • "It took 860 reports of ladders breaking and 28 injuries before Frontgate recalled foldaway ladders that had been on the market for five years."
  • "Maybe Tess can help me forget the 20 years I lived in the north-west, where my cultural highlights were collecting the rubber bands the postman left to make into a large, pointless ball, attaching strands of a Ski yoghurt pot to the back wheel of my emerald green foldaway bike so it made a "hddhdhdhdhd" sound as I rode it, and eating a pomegranate very slowly with a drawing pin."
  • "Reduce the screen size and make the stand a foldaway clip round the back, and you have a tablet."
Words like "foldaway"
collapsable collapsible
croscill
fold-down
fold-up
four-post
ital king-sized
metal-frame
metal-framed
musty-smelling
outlying
queen-size queen-sized
steep-roofed
three-feet