[ noun ] a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers <noun.artifact>
Each woman returns to "her" washing machine in the laundromat, again and again, insisting on using it even when others are free.
"My house was destroyed and I haven't anywhere to go, but thank God my family and I are still alive," said Jose Onofre, 49, a mechanic who was returning home from a laundromat when the hill collapsed.
His illness had left him too weak to carry his clothes to the laundromat.