Wash-over

Full definition of wash-over

Noun

1. An act of washing which encompasses the entire surface.
• 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, "It's bloody, having a wash-over at a basin, and half the time that's choked up and has to be poked out with a bit of wire. And look at the towels that old bitch hands us out - worn to threads. I'd like to soak for an hour in bath-salts to get the sweat and greasepaint off me."