shampoo
A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
Other meanings
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.
“I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.”
A kind of
- cleansing agent
Related words
- overshampoo
- reshampoo
- shampooable
- shampooey
- shampoolike
- baby shampoo
- shampoo bowl
- shampoo ginger
- wood shampoo
Example sentences
Word history
From Hindi "चाँपो".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “shampoo” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.