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champo

champo is the archaic form of shampoo.

Meaning of shampoo

Verb

shampoo (third-person singular simple present shampoos, present participle shampooing, simple past and past participle shampooed)

  1. (intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
    • My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.
  2. (transitive) 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...2010, Rudyard Kipling with James Daley, comp., “The Maltese Cat”, in Great Horse Stories, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 95
  3. (transitive) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
    Synonyms:
    massage

See all 7 meanings of shampoo

Forms of champo

third-person singular presentchampos
present participlechampoing
past participlechampoed
pastchampoed

Questions about champo

What is champo the archaic form of?
Champo is the archaic form of shampoo.

Words near champo in the dictionary

  1. Champlin
  2. Champlins
  3. Champness
  4. Champney
  5. Champneys
  6. champo
  7. champoed
  8. champoing
  9. champon
  10. champoo
  11. champooed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: champo (page history and authors); shampoo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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