squirt
15
2.0
- noun
- /skwɜrt/
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- Chamomile tea with a squirt of honey and black coffee for loren.
- squirt gun
- squirt bottle
- squirt of juice
But that may be just its first few squirts, who knows.
- But that may be just its first few squirts, who knows.
- They literally only put like a smallest of squirts on it.
- My spray is like totes broken because it sprays out like a squirt.
- So I'll typically just do like a little squirt of that and then smooth it all over my face.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's like, all right, fine, since you're give me, give me a squirt, but I would well, give me a squirt, top me off.
Examples
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I have an industrial squirt bottle that I fill with half vinegar and half water.
Blog text (20) -
Mom brings the slushy frozen strawberries to the table, squirts on some Reddi-whip.
Fiction book (2000) -
So if we give it a squirt now, there we go.
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- You get a quick squirt.
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Give him a little squirt.
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I gave myself an extra squirt of artificial tears.
Academic text (1999) -
We are going to do a squirt of simple syrup.
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"Well, this won't do," she said, adding more hot water and a new squirt of bath gel.
Fiction book (2000) -
Matanni drank four cups of her mud-black coffee with a squirt of Essie's cream.
Fiction book (2001) -
I filled the water gun with a quick squirt of water.
Synonyms
67
3.0
A narrow strong stream of liquid or gas
9
3.4
A sudden strong rush of liquid that comes out quickly
A short sudden jet of liquid
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Etymology
Squirt for a sudden stream of liquid likely copied the quick sound of liquid coming out and is like the word spurt, so it means a sudden, thin stream or a 'quick jet' of liquid.