shampoo
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
shampoo
- (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- Synonyms: massage
- A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.
- Coordinate term: conditioner#English|conditioner
- An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- Synonyms: shampooing
- I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
- (humorous, slang) Champagne.
- Synonyms: bubbly, champers, fizz
- French: shampoing, shampooing
- German: Shampoo, Schampu, Schampon, Schampun, Haarwaschmittel
- Italian: sciampo
- Portuguese: xampu
- Russian: шампу́нь
- Spanish: champú
- French: shampoing
- German: Haarwäsche
- French: shampoing
- German: Schampus
- Russian: шампу́нь
shampoo (shampoos, present participle shampooing; past and past participle shampooed)
- (intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
- My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.
- (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.
- Synonyms: massage
- French: shampouiner
- German: schamponieren
- German: schampunieren, schamponieren, shampoonieren, das Haar waschen, den Kopf waschen, den Teppich schampunieren
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