laundry

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA: /ˈlɑn.dɹi/

Noun

laundry (countable and uncountable, plural laundries)

1. A laundering; a washing.
   • In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
2. A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
3. That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
   • You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
4. (slang, American football) A penalty flag.