squirts

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
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?

   Synonyms:

   ankle-biter

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