shampoo
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shampoo/ʃamˈpuː/
▶noun
- 1 a liquid preparation for washing the hair.
■ a similar substance for cleaning a carpet, car, etc.
- 2 an act of washing with shampoo.
– origin C18 (in the sense ‘massage’): from Hindi cāṃpo! ‘press!’, imper. of cāṃpnā.
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