shower
IPA: ʃˈaʊɝ
noun
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
- A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A bridal shower.
- A baby shower.
- (juggling) A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.
- (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
- (chiefly Ireland, UK, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
- (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
- (Britain, informal, in the singular) A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
- One who shows.
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- (slang) A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself.
verb
- (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
- To bathe using a shower.
- To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
- (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
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Examples of "shower" in Sentences
- He stripped to take a shower.
- I contributed to the Bridal Shower page.
- I was sure after the hike and the shower.
- The parched land was blessed with showers.
- The article showers praise on the organization.
- Bill suggested the floor, the desk, and the shower.
- She upbraids him for showering his dog in the bath tub.
- The showers are accessible on the outside of the restrooms.
- How do you clean the bath with a piddling short shower hose
- (I assume that repairing a shower is a special favor for him).
- The problem with our shower is a minor one but can get my goat.
- The problem is the cold shower from the nozzle of a hose after.
- The eyebrow expert recommends tweezing your brows after a hot bath or shower.
- What they call a storm here is just a rain shower with some thunder back home.
- Arguably, the shower is an important workspace, as I do a lot of plotting and pondering in there.
- Seeing a naked person clearly standing there while you are in the shower is my new definition of creepy.
- Predicting the outcome of a triathlon race, because results can turn on factors as unforeseeable as a flat tire or a sudden rain shower, is a fool's undertaking.
- With a unique bathtub shape and a classic rain shower, the ice was broken and the rest of the items just come to complete the overall pleasant image of this interior.
- No one should have to tolerate such an awkward environment as currently exists in which the person standing next to you in the shower is potentially sexually attracted to you.
- At some point, an artificial rain shower began fall from the ceiling (to match the tropical Tiki theme, I suppose), and Christa got a photo of me hiding beneath a paper umbrella:
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