Definitions for shampoo

shampoo sham·poo

Spelling: [sham-poo]
IPA: /ʃæmˈpu/

Shampoo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in shampoo (ahmoops).

Definitions for shampoo

noun

  1. the act of shampooing.
  2. a preparation used for shampooing, especially one that does not leave a soap film.

verb (used with object)

  1. to wash (the head or hair), especially with a cleaning preparation that does not leave a soap film.
  2. to clean (rugs, upholstery, or the like) with a special preparation.
  3. Archaic. to massage.

Origin of shampoo

1755-65; earlier champo to massage Hindi cāmpnā literally, to press

Examples for shampoo

While “at home, Mr. Jordan uses a shampoo and conditioner from Herbal Essences that happens to be pink,” WSJ reports.

Nobody knows till they try it what virtue there is in a shampoo.

Or, to take a product that Goleman seems particularly partial to, shampoo?

Then he suggested a shampoo, and said my hair needed it badly, very badly.

He was busy trying to get rid of his shampoo, which had been unusually severe.

Perhaps your husband will be so amiable as to shampoo my cat!

The idea of a soap being advertised as gluten-free struck me as ludicrous—roughly on par with a shampoo proclaiming to be low fat.

The girls say that I can shampoo and manicure as well as a professional.

Lo and behold, hydrolyzed wheat protein showed up in some shampoo and conditioner I had in my own house.

The family, villagers, and the Taliban were even incensed by a shampoo commercial, featuring Humira, which played on television.

Word Value for shampoo
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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