orgetting I Had Laundry Going That Needs to Be Put in the Drier

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What "going" mean in here?
 

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It means that he/she had been doing his/her laundry but forgot about it for a moment.
 

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The laundry is in process.
 

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In this context. 'going' could probably be expanded to 'going round and round in the washing machine*', but as others have said it the general meaning is that the process is in train ''going on".

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PS * This may attract accusations of cultural bias, but the person doing the washing is unlikely to forget about the need for drying while doing a hand-wash.
PPS Perhaps the trouble with understanding this was the word laundry. There may be dictionaries that give the principal meaning as a place. (In fact when I was working at OUP I lived in a building that had previously been an out-house on an estate (mentioned in an oft-quoted poem by someone beginning with G, but that would be taking the tangent a bit too far... ;-)) - and the house was called 'The Old Laundry'.) The expression 'I had laundry going' uses 'laundry' to refer to the things being washed.
 
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