Shampoo

Quick meaning: Shampoo is a noun meaning (hygiene) A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.

Meaning

(hygiene) A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.

More Meanings

1. An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
2. (humorous, slang) Champagne.
3. (intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
4. (transitive) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
5. (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
6. (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.

Example Sentences

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.

You then apply the conditioner mix to shampooed hair, from root to tip, and after 10 minutes, rinse out as normal.

WellnessTok has done it again. After convincing people to shampoo once monthly and tan with nasal spray, it now has users asking: Is sunscreen bad for you?

Word Forms

• shampoos
• shampooing
• shampooed

Synonyms for shampoo

Depending on context, synonyms include massage, shampooing, bubbly, champers, fizz.

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