Definition of "squeegee"

A tool consisting of a rubber or similar blade attached at a right angle to a handle, particularly

1. (nautical) A long-handled tool used on ships for swabbing the decks and spreading protective coatings.  quotations  examples

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   • Holy-stoning the decks... is the worst description of nervous torture of which I ever heard, excepting perhaps, the infliction of the squee gee.

     1844, Matilda Charlotte Fraser Houstoun, Texas & the Gulf of Mexico, volume I, page 39

2. Similar long-handled tools used for drying or leveling surfaces such as paths and roadways.  examples

3. A short-handled tool, especially as used on car windshields and home windows.  examples

A roller used to similar effect, particularly

1. (photography) A tool used to remove excess moisture from a print.  examples

2. (historical) A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller made of squeegee blades pulled by a horse.

3. (printing) A tool used to force the ink through the stencil in silk-screen printing.  examples

(slang) A person who uses a squeegee, especially one who "cleans" the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then demands payment.

(transitive, intransitive) To use a squeegee.  quotations  examples