wash-and-wear
- n a fabric treated to be easily washable and to require no ironing
- s treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing
a wash-and-wear shirt
- Hard-eyed Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa seems to get into and out of hot water almost as regularly as a wash-and-wear shirt.
- Main resistance at first came from housewives, disillusioned by earlier wash-and-wear claims that fell flat.
- But cottonmen are fighting back by developing goods with wash-and-wear finishes.