towel

Pluraltowels

Formstowels

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A cloth used for wiping or for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.

   He dried the dishes with a clean towel before putting them away.

   Fresh towels hung on the rack in the hotel bathroom.

2. 2
   verbtransitive

   To dry someone or something by using a towel.

   After the bath, he toweled the baby gently and wrapped her in a blanket.

   Swimmers towel themselves quickly between races to stay warm.

   Similardry, rub

3. 3
   verbtransitive

   To strike someone or something with a towel.

   If you towel your teammates in the locker room again, you're benched for a week.

   She toweled her little brother on the arm, and he ran off howling.

4. 4
   verbtransitive

   To block up a door or other opening with a towel in order to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.

   We toweled the door and opened a window, but the smell still drifted into the corridor.

   College students sometimes towel their dorm doors before smoking inside.

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