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squirt

UK/skwɜːt//skwɝt/

squirt noun: an instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.

Noun

squirt (countable and uncountable, plural squirts)

  1. An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
    • The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra have a rain-making ceremony which lasts a week. The men go about with bamboo squirts and the women with bowls of water, and they drench each other or throw the water into the air and cry, "The rain has come," when it drips down on them.1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 1, page 277
  2. A small, quick stream; a jet.
    • a squirt of body lotion
    • Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.2007, Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0, page 9
  3. The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
  4. A burst of noise.
    • As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.2011, Andy Mulligan, Return to Ribblestrop
  5. (slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
    • He was still there when I came up, a squirt with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his squirt face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school.1946, Robert Penn Warren, All the King′s Men, published 2005, page 606
  6. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Philippines, UK, US) A small child.
    • Hey squirt! Where you been?
    • Hurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt” of twelve, and the boys′ activities come out.1986, Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island, entry in Dictionary of American Children′s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit, page 137
    Synonyms:
    ankle-biter
  7. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Female ejaculate.
  8. (informal) An act of urination.
    • Excuse me, I need to take a squirt.
  9. A maneuver in which a kayak is forced into a nearly vertical position.

Verb

squirt (third-person singular simple present squirts, present participle squirting, simple past and past participle squirted)

  1. (intransitive) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
    • The toothpaste squirted from the tube.
    • His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him.1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Werewolves, 2008, Forgotten Books, page 121
  2. (transitive) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
    • The hard-featured miscreant[…] coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...
    • It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.1985, The Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia′s Most Deadly Creatures, Murdoch Books, published 2002, page 88
  3. (broadly, transitive) To emit, eject, or excrete (something).
    • Among the hallmarks that all fungi share is the way they eat. They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in. Fungi can also produce vast number of spores, which can survive in all sorts of extreme conditions for years.2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times
  4. (transitive) To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
    • Ask the child to squirt the target with water.2010, Christy Isbell, Mighty Fine Motor Fun: Fine Motor Activities for Young Children, page 81
  5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
    • he'll be ready to squirt his Wits at his own Shadow1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
  6. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
    • Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies.2010, Sonia Borg, Oral Sex She′ll Never Forget, page 9
  7. To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical.
    • Let's start by assuming that you are going to tail squirt as you leave an eddy andd enter the flowing water.2000, Eric Brymer, Tom Hughes, Loel Collins, The Art of Freestyle, page 62
  8. (Internet, transitive) To 3D print (a firearm, or a part thereof).

squirt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

squirt in Hindi

स्क्वीर्ट

squirt in Tamil

நீர்பீச்சு, நீரை பீச்சு வெளியேற்று

squirt in Urdu

squirt
پچکاری pickārī

squirt in Bengali

পিচকারি
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squirt in Telugu
చిమ్ము cimmu
squirt in Malayalam
പീച്ചുക pīccuka
squirt in Kannada
ಪೀಚು, ಚಿಮ್ಮು
squirt in Gujarati
પિચકારી pickārī
squirt in Nepali
स्क्वर्ट, स्क्विर्ट
squirt in Arabic
تَدَفَّقَ tadaffaqa, بَثَقَ baṯaqa, اِنْدَفَعَ indafaʕa, بَخَّ baḵḵa
squirt in Malay
pancut, cerut, cerat
squirt in Persian
آب کُس āb kos
squirt in Vietnamese
tuôn, phọt

Examples of squirt in a sentence

  • And I mean coffee gives me the squirts.” “Oh, I know it does.
  • His nose starts squirting blood right before I kick him square in the twig and giggle berries.
  • "First thing was, he got the squirts." "The squirts?" Wayne clamped his fingers around his nose.

All 34 example sentences with squirt

Synonyms of squirt

Forms of squirt

Noun
pluralsquirts
Verb
third-person singular presentsquirts
present participlesquirting
past participlesquirted
pastsquirted

Plural of squirt: squirts

Origin of squirt

From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette. *

Words formed from squirt

Phrases with squirt

Words that rhyme with squirt

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Questions about squirt

What does squirt mean?
Squirt means an instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
What is squirt in Hindi?
Squirt in Hindi is स्क्वीर्ट. See Squirt meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is squirt?
Squirt can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce squirt?
Squirt is pronounced /skwɝt/ (US).
What is the plural of squirt?
The plural of squirt is squirts.

Words near squirt in the dictionary

  1. squirrely
  2. squirril
  3. squirring
  4. squirrs
  5. squirs
  6. squirt
  7. squirt gun
  8. squirt guns
  9. squirtable
  10. squirted
  11. squirter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: squirt (page history and authors); squirt (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squirt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); پچکاری (Urdu) (page history and authors); squirt (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); చిమ్ము (Telugu) (page history and authors); പീച്ചുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); squirt (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પિચકારી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); squirt (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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