shampoo

Plural: shampoos

Noun

• cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair
• the act of washing your hair with shampoo
• 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 soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.
• An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
• Champagne.

Verb

Verb Forms: shampooed, shampooing, shampoos

• To wash with a cleaning agent, especially hair.
• use shampoo on (hair)
• To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
• To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
• 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.

Examples

• After a particularly tough Words With Friends loss, he felt the urge to shampoo his brain.
• I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
• My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.

Synonyms

bubbly, champers, fizz, massage, shampooing

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