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Splash

//splæʃ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The sound made by an object hitting a liquid. onomatopoeic

    "I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond."

  2. 2
    the act of scattering water about haphazardly wordnet
  3. 3
    A small amount of liquid.

    "I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood."

  4. 4
    the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface wordnet
  5. 5
    A small amount (of color).

    "The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful"

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  1. 6
    a patch of bright color wordnet
  2. 7
    A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.

    "There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom."

  3. 8
    the sound like water splashing wordnet
  4. 9
    An impact or impression.

    "The new movie made quite a splash upon its release."

  5. 10
    a small quantity of something moist or liquid wordnet
  6. 11
    A splash screen. informal

    "When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration."

  7. 12
    a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event wordnet
  8. 13
    A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
  9. 14
    A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion. dated
  10. 15
    A large, prominent headline or article.

    "So for a local newspaper, a splash on a fatal crash is just the first of a series of reports."

  11. 16
    A splash page.
  12. 17
    The shooting down of an aircraft over water. slang

    "Hits were observed, but again the poor functioning of VT ammunition hindered in effecting a splash."

  13. 18
    The bleeding caused by a knife wound. Multicultural-London-English, slang

    "Jojo caught up and gave him a splash Slap that wap, get rid of them plats"

  14. 19
    A knife. Multicultural-London-English, slang

    "You grip your splash for fashion—me and you, we ain’t got the same intentions."

Verb
  1. 1
    To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. intransitive

    "sit and splash in the bathtub"

  2. 2
    mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered wordnet
  3. 3
    (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter. intransitive

    "Water splashed everywhere."

  4. 4
    dash a liquid upon or against wordnet
  5. 5
    To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. transitive

    "She splashed water onto her face."

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  1. 6
    cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force wordnet
  2. 7
    To hit or expel liquid at. transitive

    "The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea."

  3. 8
    strike and dash about in a liquid wordnet
  4. 9
    To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently. transitive

    "The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere."

  5. 10
    soil or stain with a splashed liquid wordnet
  6. 11
    To spend (money). transitive

    "After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike."

  7. 12
    walk through mud or mire wordnet
  8. 13
    To roughly fill with color. figuratively

    "This was pure theatre, with a 60,000 crowd at Wembley adding colour to the fight to face either England or Denmark in Sunday's final, the stadium splashed with the red of Spain at one end and the victorious blue of Italy at the other as crowds flocked back in ever bigger numbers after pandemic restrictions were lifted."

  9. 14
    make a splashing sound wordnet
  10. 15
    To launch a ship. transitive

    "In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers."

  11. 16
    To shoot down (an aircraft) over water. slang

    "Planes were sighted at about 5000 yards, fire was opened at 4500 yards; the first plane was splashed about 1800 yards from the ship, the second was splashed about 3000 yards from the ship and rudder shifted to hard right."

  12. 17
    To stab (a person), causing them to bleed. Multicultural-London-English, transitive

    "Grab him, don't panic, rambo under my jacket Nap him, splash him, then I'm petrol bath my jacket"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

Etymology 2

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

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