noun
shampoo
sham-POO
noun
1
A liquid soap-like product made for washing hair.
"She switched to a shampoo made for dry hair."
"This shampoo also works well on delicate carpets."
verb
1
To wash hair, carpet, or upholstery using shampoo.
"He shampooed his hair twice to get the chlorine smell out."
"We had the living room rug professionally shampooed."
How to Use Shampoo
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA product (or the act of using it) for cleaning hair or fabric.
Common pairings
bottle of shampoo
shampoo and conditioner
shampoo the carpet
Word Forms
shampooed past tense, shampoos plural, shampoos singular
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Etymology
From Hindi champo, an instruction meaning "press!" or "knead!", from a verb for massaging the body — it originally described a warm-water body massage before it came to mean hair washing in English.