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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed..
washboard road
It's a rough trip no matter how you come, for these washboard roads will loosen up even brandnew cars pretty fast; and hitchhikers always find the going bad.
Franklin is beside himself, revving up the engine in the pickup. As I jump in, he spins out and takes off up the road in the direction the plane came from, bouncing dangerously over washboards and ruts.
Doug came up with a half-guilty smile and washboarded his forehead at her.
The rip that was generated by each change of tide had scoured the bottom white and washboarded the sand where it was still layered over the hardpan coral floor.
The low bass brruummmp of 20-mm slugs going out washboarded the bulkheads.
She drove as fast as she dared, braking for the frost heaves that washboarded the blacktop and on her dirt road, bouncing in and out of the clay ruts cut by the flow of runoff.
It's almost as if the urge to washboard is intrinsically human.
Use washboard when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Washboard means A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed..
Common synonyms include splashboard.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
washboard road
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