jet dryer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A piece of racetrack maintenance equipment, a truck or trailer equipped with a gas turbine jet engine (which does not provide motive or electrical power), that provides copious amounts of hot air, which is used to blow dry the track surface.
  2. Ellipsis of jet hand dryer.

Word forms

jet dryer jet dryers

Etymology

From jet + dryer. From being a device that projects a jet of air used to dry a surface.

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