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Hershey squirts

Hershey squirts noun: diarrhea.

Noun

Hershey squirts pl (plural only)

  1. (US, plural, plural-only, slang) diarrhea
    • It wasn't any kind of physical illness, not measles or chicken pox or even the Hershey Squirts, the most humiliating and debilitating of them all.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
    • But if the Goddess chose to help you by giving Miss Hoover the Hershey squirts, such is her divine wisdom.2009 November 29, “Rednecks and Broomsticks”, in The Simpsons, season 21, episode 7, spoken by Gwendolyn Nightshadow (Neve Campbell)

Origin of Hershey squirts

In reference to Hershey's, an American chocolate company.

Questions about Hershey squirts

What does Hershey squirts mean?
Hershey squirts means diarrhea.
What part of speech is Hershey squirts?
Hershey squirts is a noun.

Words near Hershey squirts in the dictionary

  1. Hershel
  2. Hershes
  3. Hershey
  4. Hershey highway
  5. Hershey highways
  6. Hershey squirts
  7. Hersheys
  8. hership
  9. Hershkowi
  10. Hershkowitz
  11. Hershkowitzes

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