shampoo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.

   These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.

2. 2
   noun

   An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.

   I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.

3. 3
   verb

   To wash one's own hair with shampoo.

   My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.

4. 4
   verb

   To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.

   Each pony had his sais, his groom, who lived and ate and slept with the animal, and had betted a good deal more than he could afford on the result of the game. There was no chance of anything going wrong, but to make sure, each sais was shampooing the legs of his pony to the last minute. Behind the saises sat as many of the Skidars' regiment as had leave to attend the match […]

5. 5
   noun

   the act of washing your hair with shampoo

6. 6
   noun

   cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair

7. 7
   verb

   use shampoo on (hair)

8. 8
   noun

   A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.

Etymology

From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.