tumble dry

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   dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder

   “These fabrics are delicate and cannot be tumbled dry”

   Broaderdry

Questions about tumble dry

What does tumble dry mean?

tumble dry means "dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder".

Is tumble dry a common word?

tumble dry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.