What does "squirt" mean?
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
Squirt
/skwɝt/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
- Grammar: squirt is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: jet, spurt, a nobody, a nothing.
- Useful contrasts: absorb, cessation, crawl.
- Usage evidence: Peeling an orange can be tricky at times, you never know if it will squirt you in the face.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. countable, uncountable
"The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra have a rain-making ceremony which lasts a week. The men go about with bamboo squirts and the women with bowls of water, and they drench each other or throw the water into the air and cry, "The rain has come," when it drips down on them."
- 2 the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) wordnet
- 3 A small, quick stream; a jet. countable, uncountable
"Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye."
- 4 someone who is small and insignificant wordnet
- 5 The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A burst of noise. countable, uncountable
"As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static."
- 7 An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper. countable, slang, uncountable
"He was still there when I came up, a squirt with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his squirt face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school."
- 8 A small child. Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, Philippines, UK, US, countable, slang, uncountable
"Hey squirt! Where you been?"
- 9 Female ejaculate. slang, uncountable, vulgar
- 10 An act of urination. countable, informal, uncountable
"Excuse me, I need to take a squirt."
- 11 A maneuver in which a kayak is forced into a nearly vertical position. countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. intransitive
"The toothpaste squirted from the tube."
- 2 wet with a spurt of liquid wordnet
- 3 To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. transitive
"The hard-featured miscreant[…] coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate."
- 4 cause to come out in a squirt wordnet
- 5 To emit, eject or excrete (something). broadly, transitive
"Among the hallmarks that all fungi share is the way they eat. They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in. Fungi can also produce vast number of spores, which can survive in all sorts of extreme conditions for years."
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- 6 To hit with a rapid stream of liquid. transitive
"Ask the child to squirt the target with water."
- 7 To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. figuratively, obsolete, transitive
"he'll be ready to squirt his Wits at his own Shadow"
- 8 To ejaculate. intransitive, slang, vulgar
"Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies."
- 9 To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical.
"Let's start by assuming that you are going to tail squirt as you leave an eddy andd enter the flowing water."
- 10 To 3D print (a firearm). Internet, transitive
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Peeling an orange can be tricky at times, you never know if it will squirt you in the face."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "squirt"?
Common synonyms include: jet, spurt, a nobody, a nothing, blow out, blowout.
How do you use "squirt" in a sentence?
Peeling an orange can be tricky at times, you never know if it will squirt you in the face.
How do you pronounce "squirt"?
Pronounced /skwɝt/.
Etymology
From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette.