shampoo
IPA: ʃæmpˈu
noun
- (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.
- An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- (humorous, slang) Champagne.
verb
- (intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
- (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
- (transitive) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
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Examples of "shampoo" in Sentences
- Because now I realize that perhaps my shampoo is a bit too expensive.
- Of course, "shampoo" is not necessarily what we use to wash our hair.
- i dunch condition .. but irrc conditioner + shampoo wan ish use as per normal shampoo~
- Because now I realize that perhaps my shampoo is a bit too expensive. hahahahooo gafaw love you!
- Happily, in English the word shampoo can still radiate a Hindi blend of sacred health and pleasure.
- After World War II, variations on the word shampoo emerged in most major marketplace languages to refer to the new product rather than to the older practice of the shampoo or shampooing.
- Chemists in Germany and elsewhere continued to make headway researching alternatives to alkaline soaps, and after World War I, the wider availability of indoor plumbing brought the word shampoo a big step closer to international recognition.
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