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shampoos

shampoos is the plural of shampoo.

shampoos is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shampoo.

Meaning of shampoo

Noun

shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)

  1. (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
    Synonyms:
    massage
  2. (hygiene) 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.2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  3. An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
    • I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
    Synonyms:
    shampooing
  4. (humorous, slang) Champagne.
    Synonyms:
    bubbly, champers, fizz

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Phrases with shampoos

Questions about shampoos

What is shampoos the plural of?
Shampoos is the plural of shampoo.

Words near shampoos in the dictionary

  1. shampooers
  2. shampooey
  3. shampooing
  4. shampooings
  5. shampoolike
  6. shampoos
  7. shampos
  8. Shamps
  9. shamrock
  10. shamrockery
  11. shamrocklike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shampoos (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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